Cooperativa de Servicios Múltiples Sol & Cafe Ltda

Funding to support specialty coffee exports

Peru

Fair trade

Trade in products that have been certified and carry a fair trade label. An example of this is a farmer’s cooperative that collectively sells its cocoa to a fair trade organization.

Green

Promotes and/or supports the protection of the environment. An example of this is an organic farming cooperative.

Cooperativa de Servicios Múltiples Sol & Café Ltda (Sol & Café), founded in 2004, is a cooperative of small growers involved in the production and direct export of Arabica coffee for specialty markets. Sol & Café is active in the coffee-growing province of Jaén in the rural department of Cajamarca, one of the poorest of the country, with one third living in poverty and two thirds of those living in extreme poverty.

Sol & Café represents various base organizations, which together, represent almost 1,000 small coffee farmers. In 2008, the cooperative received Fair Trade certification and more than half of the members also have sustainable certification by Rainforest Alliance. Farmers actively participate in the cooperative - also at management and governance level.

Sol & Café has been an Oikocredit partner since 2011.