our producer partners
We work closely with our cocoa and sugar producer partners to ensure transparency, respect and fairness in the supply chain.
To accomplish this, we visit our producer partners in the South to learn more about their challenges and successes. Similarly, we bring producers to Canada to learn more about the markets in which their products are being sold. These visits help us, and our producer partners, to learn about what improvements can be made in the future.
We source our cocoa and sugar ingredients for all of our Cocoa Camino products from producer co-operatives in four countries. Our cocoa comes from co-ops in the Dominican Republic, Panama and Peru, while our sugar is sourced from a co-op in from Paraguay.
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dominican republicCONACADO (Confederación Nacional de Cacaocultores Dominicanos), founded in 1988, is a democratically run confederation of nine co-operatives. It has a member base of 9000 small-scale cocoa farmer members who represent one quarter of all cocoa growers in the Dominican Republic. La Siembra has collaborated with CONCADO since 2002. |
panamaCOCABO (Cooperativa de Servicios Múltiples de Cacao Bocatereña, R.L.), founded in 1952, is comprised of 1500 small-scale cocoa farmers. La Siembra has recently launched an 85% chocolate bar that is derived from COCABO beans. |
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peruCACVRA (Cooperativa Agraria Cafetalera Valle Río Apurimac Ltda), founded in 1969, is a worker-controlled organization comprised of 3700 cocoa and coffee small scale farmers located in Ayacucho, Peru. La Siembra has collaborated with CACVRA since 2004. |
paraguayManduvirá (Cooperativa Manduvirá Ltda) founded in 1975, is a worker-controlled organization comprised of over 1000 members and located in the region of Arroyo y Esteros, Paraguay. La Siembra has been collaborating with Manduvira since 2002 and in 2006 imported their first container of fair trade organic sugar. |
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