Activities

In Guatemala, MOCCA works with 3 partners: Cacao Verapaz, Apodip, and Propeten, through which it trains 2,270 cacao farmers, providing integration into higher-value markets, technical assistance, research, access to quality genetic material, and promoting innovative financing models. Additionally, MOCCA is integrating 8 farmer organizations that group 350 producers into the Cacao Flavor Map a tool to establish links with buyers of fine flavor and aroma cocoa. Private-sector partners supporting MOCCA activities in Guatemala: The J.M. Smucker Company, Peet’s Coffee and McDonald’s.
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FARMERS TRAINED

To enhance their productivity and profitability

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ENHANCED HECTARES

With best agronomic practices

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NURSERIES TRAINED

With technical assistance and business management

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RESEARCH SUPPORTED

For agronomic treatments and cadmium mitigation

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SALES VALUE

For working capital, purchase of inputs and farm investments

Where we are

Farmers trained

2,270

We work in partnerships

We connect farmers directly with markets to leave a lasting impact beyond the life of a project. We partner with companies that not only wish to invest in improving cacao quality and yields, but also in the systems that make those improvements possible for the future, such as higher prices, good genetic material for planting, and more direct, feasible and profitable supply chains for smallholder farmers.
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Our partnerships

We provide technical support to cacao-producing families in the northern region of Guatemala to increase their crop productivity and profitability, while considering adaptation to climate change and a consistent improvement in quality. This is translated into access to specialty markets.

Through Fundación ProPetén, we provide technical assistance to cacao-growing communities in northern Guatemala aimed at strengthening their productivity and profitability, and provide them with better quality planting material, reinforce their knowledge of best practices in cacao agroforestry systems and set up higher-value commercial links.

News

“I belong to a local organization located in northern Guatemala. In 2019 we participated in the Cacao of Excellence Program with an organic sample and positioned ourselves among the best 50 worldwide. The news was hard to believe! But, thanks to this result, we are now strengthening trade relations with customers in the United States and Germany”.

Sebastián Tiul
Cacao producer
Alta Verapaz, Guatemala