Finca Triunfo Verde, S.C. is a cooperative organization conformed by around 500 organized small farmers, dedicated to organic farm practices in the buffer zone surrounding the El Triunfo biological reserve. Through ecologically friendly practices, they seek to foment conservation, offsetting land and resource degradation in the area and promoting the recovery of natural resources and local biodiversity. Their mission is to improve member livelihoods through the sale of high quality organic coffee in markets that value and rewards the effort behind growing an ecologically friendly product with a fair price.
As environmental stewards, Triunfo Verde seeks that members of the organization remain actively engaged in a process of environmental education. Through their technical and agronomic accompaniment, farmers receive the necessary training and education to develop farmer households into productive campesino enterprises, capable of generating sustainable economic development in communities.
All operations of their business, from the collection and commercialization of coffee, to technical assistance, financial and productive assistance, community development and productive diversification, are managed inclusively and democratically. They advocate for gender and racial equality and religious freedom as founding principles of this cooperative.
Ultimately, the mission of the organization is to develop and demonstrate that agriculture can be compatible with rational resource use, promoting community social and economic development of underserved communities. Their goal is to improve humankind’s relationship to nature through feasible and ecologically sound means, with social justice at its core.
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Finca Triunfo Verde, S.C.
- FLO ID#: 3116
- Organic Cert
Profile
- Total Bags Purchased: 3435
- Partner Since: 2018
- Founded: 2000
- Total Members: 392
- Total Hectares: 1280.33
- Organic Members: 384
- Female Members: 128
- Avg Farm Size: 3.27 ha
- Organic Hectares: 1254.64
- Full time staff: 15
- Fulltime Agronomists: 6
- Harvest: Dec-Apr
- Elevation: 1000-1700 m
Varietals Grown:
- 25% Anacaf�14
- 20% Bourbon
- 13% Catimor
- 8% Typica
- 8% Other
- 7% Pacas
- 6% Pache
- 5% Costa Rica 95
- 5% Oro Azteca
- 2% Sarchimor
- 0.5% Pacamara
- 0.5% Other
Social Premium Investment: 2024 Crop Year
Fair Trade Certification guarantees 20 cents/lb of the price paid a producer organization is set aside as a social premium. How this money is invested is a decision taken collectively by the general assembly of members at the end of each harvest. Below is a break down of how producers in this organization chose to spend their fair trade premium.
72% |
Improve Yields
Purchase of 200 screens to enable proper selection of coffee on farm. Incentive to improve production at the farm.
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22% |
Community Development
86 families were benefitted with materials for the improvement of their households.
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6% |
Infastructure
Counter-party investment for improvement of Triunfo Verde facilities at the collection center in Jaltenango.
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Recent Projects We Supported:
Date | Project | Status | Report |
6/24/24 | Infrastructure Adaptations for Environmentally Sustainable Production | Approved |