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Acopagro
Cooperativa Agraria Cacaotera Acopagro Ltda. (ACOPAGRO) is a cocoa producer located in the San Martín region of Peru. The co-operative was established in 1997 by a group of 27 farmers.
AgroAndino
AgroAndino is a social enterprise, working with smallholder farmers to produce 100% naturally dried fruit, including goldenberries, bananas and mangos.
Aldea Coffee
Aldea Coffee is a Nicaraguan coffee producer founded by 22 farmers, now supporting 14,000 farmers in one of the world's most undeveloped regions, Jinotega, through the use of technology.
Allpa
Allpa is a Peruvian handcraft organisation whose name means ‘earth’ in Quechua Indian. The organisation employs 27 people and works with hundreds of families located in various parts of Peru.
Alto Huallaga
Alto Huallaga is a cocoa producing co-operative located in the Huánuco region of central Peru. The co-operative was formed in 2009 and its membership covers a wide area and varied altitudes, which increases the sustainability of production.
Angel Felting
Founded in 1999, Angel Felting is a small handcraft business based in Mongolia. Husband and wife, Dashdorj Erdenetulga and Byambajargal Munkhjargal set up the business by making woollen slippers at home.
Apicoop
Apicoop is a co-operative made up of 350 beekeepers, all in the Valdivia region of southern Chile. They live in rural communities where work is scarce.
Association Ton (ATN)
ATN works with mango and cashew nut producers in Burkina Faso. They dream of providing a nursery for staff and the community, an ambulance for the local hospital, and a micro credit union for ATN members.
Asunafo
Asunafo is a fast-growing Ghanaian cocoa producer, despite many of the challenges faced by economic and environmental factors. They registered as a co-operative in 2011 with just over a thousand farmers.
Banyankole Coffee Services
Banyankole Coffee Services (BCS) was founded by three coffee farmers in 2014. Today, BCS works with more than 1,500 farmers, supporting them to export the highest quality Robusta coffee to local and international markets.
Bees for business
Our Bees for Business project which supports 50 women in rural Burkina Faso to become beekeepers and produce honey giving them a year-round, sustainable source of income.
BShirt
Created by two mums, The Bshirt is an award-winning brand known for its innovative breastfeeding clothing design and ‘slow fashion’ approach to maternity clothes.
BUILDING SUSTAINABLE LIVELIHOODS
Working in partnership with local co-operative, Coproexnic, this project is supporting 40 women in rural northern Nicaragua to become organic sesame farmers.
Building Sustainable Solutions to Poverty Malawi
In 2016 we started a three year project working in partnership with Malawi Fairtrade Network (MFTN) to reduce poverty levels among their member producers.
Bukonzo Farmers
Bukonzo Organic Farmers Co-operative Union started out as a group of six organic coffee farmers who were keen to spread their message of environmental awareness.
CAC Pangoa
Cooperativa Agraria Cafetalera (CAC Pangoa) was established in 1977. Today, the co-op works with over 700 coffee and cocoa farmers, improving economic incomes and raising standards of living for members.
CADESA
CADESA are a cocoa producer using groundbreaking technology to transform the way cocoa co-operatives operate.
Cafescor
In 2014, a group of 25 farmers came together with the ambition to export this premium quality coffee to customers worldwide. They became known as Cafescor, and since then they have grown their membership to over 400 coffee farmers.
Candela
For over 15 years, Candela has used Shared Interest finance to sustain a precious relationship with the Peruvian Amazon.
Capucas
In this case study we reveal the benefits of Capucas, a Honduran coffee co-operative, based in an area that has recently suffered the effects of two hurricanes.
Cayat
CAYAT is a cocoa, coffee and cashew nut producing co-operative, based in Ivory Coast.
CECAFE: Coffee Producer based in Peru
CECAFE brings together 852 farmers in the Amazonas region of Peru, who believe that their coffee is a symbol of wellbeing.
Co-op Hibiscus
Coop Hibiscus is a co-operative based in Nicaragua. The farmers cultivate hibiscus, which is processed into juice, wine hibiscus concentrate and dried hibiscus, before being sold locally.
Cocagi
We reveal the benefits Rwandan co-operative, COCAGI, a coffee co-operative in Rwanda, has brought to its wider community.
COCOPACK
COCOPACK is a Fairtrade coconut producer based in Ivory Coast – the first organisation to obtain FLO certification for coconut in Africa, and the first coconut producer Shared Interest has financed.
COOPARM
COOPARM has 500 members, who work to Fairtrade and organic standards, putting people and planet at the forefront of their work in producing high quality coffee.
Crafting Fairer Futures
In September 2018 we launched our third project working in partnership with Swaziland Fair Trade (SWIFT). ). This project is supporting 100 women who, together with a further 1,900, sell their handcrafts at the Manzini Bus Station.
Cuencas del Huallaga
In the Peruvian Amazon, cocoa producer Cuencas del Huallaga exemplify the promise of technology with their growth into international markets since their conception in 2018.
ECAMOM
Ivory Coast supplies 30% of the world’s total cocoa, with large corporations like Nestle and Cadbury sourcing much of their cocoa here.
Ecookim
Ecookim was established in 2004 and is an important player in Ivory Coast’s cocoa value chain. Membership has now grown to reach 23 farmer co-operatives, with 22,570 individual producers covering two different provinces.
Educe
Educe are a honey co-operative, working with almost 1,000 beekeepers in the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico. This area is known for its production of high-quality honey, particularly from the Melipona bee, which is native to the region.
Freeman Trading
Freeman Trading is a UK coffee importer sourcing from mainly Peru, and Founder, Leon Woffenden tells us about their response to the lower demand for coffee during the pandemic.
Gourmet Gardens
Gourmet Gardens are a Fairtrade vanilla, cocoa and chilli co-operative based in Uganda.
Growing Fairer Futures: Ivory Coast
Our Growing Fairer Futures project sees us work closely with 50 young people in Ivory Coast, to help make their cocoa farms more sustainable.
GROWING FAIRER FUTURES: RWANDA
Our third Growing Fairer Futures project will support young people in western Rwanda to establish their own coffee farms.
Guayapi
Guayapi is a French importer and distributor of wild plants from the Amazon Rainforest and the hills of Sri Lanka.
IMPROVING FARMING METHODS
Working in partnership with local co-operative CECAFE, we are supporting coffee farmers in the northern jungle of Peru to increase their resilience to the coffee borer beetle, and produce their own supply of organic compost.
INCREASING ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES
Working in partnership with not for profit organisation TradeAid Integrated, this project will support a group of Ghanaian basket weavers to establish a vegetable farm without the use of soil.
INCREASING THE RESILIENCE OF COFFEE FARMING
Working in partnership with Bukonzo Organic Farmers Co-operative Union (BOCU), this project will support Ugandan smallholder coffee farmers to increase their coffee yield, and diversify into passion fruit production.
Inka Moss
Founded in 2010, Inka Moss helps farmers in the highlands of Peru to benefit from a growing market.
Kabuboni
Kenyan coffee co-operative, Kabuboni has been able to fund a dairy project, and farmers are able to earn an additional income following our Access to Finance project.
Kibinge
Kibinge Coffee Farmers’ Co-operative Society Limited is named after the region in which it is located in Central Uganda, about 150 kilometres from the capital, Kampala. The region is renowned for its high-quality Robusta coffee.
KOAKAKA
KOAKAKA (Koperative y’ abahinzi ba Kawa Karaba) coffee co-operative lies on the edge of the Nyungwe rainforest in the South Province of Rwanda.
La Florida
In 1966, a group of 50 coffee farmers from the Chanchamayo region of Peru – known for its mixture of mountains and jungle – united to form La Florida (Cooperativa Agraria Cafetalera La Florida), one of the oldest co-operatives in the country.
Lemberona
Lemberona is a fair trade buyer of a wide range of high quality organic dried fruits, herbs and nuts, with the majority of their producers based in Uzbekistan.
Liberation Nuts
Amidst a challenging market, Liberation, the UK’s only Fairtrade, farmer owned nut company, defied the odds to end the year with a profit.
Little Green Radicals
Based in London, Little Green Radicals began with the simple idea of making beautiful clothes for children, produced with the greatest care and attention to detail.
Lucuma Designs
Twenty years ago, Lucuma Designs, LLC, a US-based fair trade company, was founded by Alessandra Bravo and Don Blackowiak, to create opportunities for Peruvian artists to promote their finest craftsmanship.
Malawi Fairtrade Network
Through our work with the Malawi Fairtrade Network, eight tea and sugar co-operatives have drawn closer to achieving their longer term goals through financial planning.
Mata Traders
Not all clothing retailers put margin before morals, and Mata Traders is one of those that continues to put ethics first.
Nyame Akwan
Nyame Akwan is a Fairtrade orange producer based in the Ashanti region of Ghana.
PRODECOOP
PRODECOOP (Promotora de Desarrollo Cooperativo de Las Segovias) coffee co-operative in Nicaragua is committed to raising awareness of women’s rights - not just within the organisation itself but also throughout coffee-growing communities.
Simbi Coffee
Simbi Coffee, based in Rwanda, became a customer after going through our virtual due diligence process in March 2021.
SOCODD
SOCODD (Société Coopérative Dialogue de Djékanou) was founded in 2010 by 150 producers from three villages, who decided to come together with a shared vision of improving livelihoods for farmers.
SolAlter
Based in Ardeche, in southern France, SolAlter connects producers in Ecuador with French chocolatiers to create custom-made chocolate bars, which they sell in the European market.
Suhum Co-operative
Suhum cocoa co-operative in Ghana is using a Shared Interest loan to improve their community.
Swahili Imports
Founded over two decades ago in Oregon by Leslie Mittelberg, Swahili Imports – trading as Swahili African Modern – partners with African artisans to sell their fair trade goods in stores around the world.
SWIFT
With the support of Comic Relief, Shared Interest Foundation has been working in Swaziland since 2010.
TradeAID Integrated
TradeAID Integrated is a not-for-profit organisation working with 65 basket weaver groups in the Bolgatanga area of the Upper East Region of Ghana.
Twongere Kawa Coko
Coffee production in Rwanda is focused on quality rather than quantity. Known as the 'land of a thousands hills', many of the farmers grow their produce on hillsides within lush, untamed valleys.
UCASA
With over a decade of experience, UCASA honey co-operative plays a vital role in the El Sauce community of Nicaragua.
UES
UES is a group of 1,379 coffee producers from Chiapas estate, South Pacific of Mexico.
UGF/CDN
UGF/CDN is a shea butter co-operative in Reo, Burkina Faso established 25 years ago.