beneficiary
families
organizations
supported
In order to improve the social and economic conditions of 3,000 rural Colombian families, SOCODEVI worked to consolidate the competitiveness of their agricultural, forestry and pastoral (agro-forestry & pastoral) activities. To this end, SOCODEVI focused on improving a number of key factors: 1) access to local, regional and international markets, 2) the entrepreneurial environment, 3) access to quality technical assistance, 4) women’s integration into the formal economy and 5) the establishment of sustainable agro-forestry pastoral systems.
Results
associative enterprises
improved their commercial operations’ profitability
farmers
were trained on responsible packaging for their products
farmers
completed a program on leadership and understanding the value chain
micro lots for coffee
produced by women (“Café Mujer”) were exported and marketed abroad
“The women farmers from my community can now more readily access microcredit to improve their production sustainably. It is a rotating fund and we, the women, are the leaders of this initiative.’’
Lady Marison Villota
Asociación Cruz de Amarillo – Colombia
Major donors
