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The Cacao Effect
has had an impact
on more than
0
cocoa farmers and their families.
The objective of the project is to improve the life conditions of cocoa farming communities and contribute to the construction of
LASTING PEACE.
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PRODUCTIVITY
Through new sowing, rehabilitation, training in good agricultural practices, support via rural extension work, and anchor crop models, we aim to increase the productivity and income of small cocoa farmers.
ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Thanks to the support provided regarding entrepreneurship, cocoa farming communities and families are able to develop their business ideas, make them come true, and have additional sources of income.
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ASSOCIATIVITY
We train cocoa producer associations to strengthen their administrative, technical, and commercial practices, optimizing processes and resources in order for them to provide better services to their associates, who are mostly producers of the project.
Learn about a successful association
EDUCATION
Through the programs of the Luker Foundation (Escuela Nueva Activa, Aprendamos Todos a Leer, La U en tu Colegio, and Adultos en Formación Lectiva), children, youths, and adults in rural areas can have better opportunities in life, thanks to the improvement of their academic skills.
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RESILIENCE
through dialogues, activities, and workshops in order for them to be more resilient after many years of armed conflict.
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We are in four regions of Colombia: Urabá, Bajo Cauca, Huila, and Tumaco.
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URABÁ
1.967 impacted people.
Municipalities
Department
1 Necoclí
Antioquia
2 Apartadó
Antioquia
3 Turbo
Antioquia
4 San Pedro
Antioquia
BAJO CAUCA
294 impacted people.
Municipalities
Department
5 Caucasia
Antioquia
6 Cáceres
Antioquia
7 Zaragoza
Antioquia
8 Montelíbano
Córdoba
9 Puerto Libertador
Córdoba
HUILA
1.055 impacted people.
Municipalities
Department
10 Garzón
Huila
11 Gigante
Huila
12 El Agrado
Huila
13 Rivera
Huila
14 Campoalegre
Huila
15 El Pital
Huila
16 Algeciras
Huila
17 Hobo
Huila
TUMACO
1.299 impacted people.
Municipalities
Department
18
Nariño
KEY FACTS ABOUT THE PROJECT
1.121 cocoa farmers
have enrolled as producer partners of the project.
Our producer partners
have recorded cocoa sales for $8.671.075.896 COP.
1.761 hectares
of cocoa have been sown and rehabilitated.
We have trained 695 people in entrepreneurship
with 56% of them being women.
78 rural teachers
trained in academic and socioemotional skills.
892 people have attended workshops
to improve their mental health and resilience.
We have participated in the strengthening of 21 cocoa farmer associations
seeking to improve their technical, commercial, and administrative capabilities.
2.630 children, youths, and adults
have received training in our academic programs.
STRATEGY
TRANSVERSAL GENDER, INCLUSION, AND YOUTH STRATEGY
The countryside has been, for several decades, the main stage of the Colombian armed conflict, and cocoa farming regions happen to be in the most affected territories, not only by war, but also by yields of illegal crops. Gender, inclusion, and youth are approaches addressed transversally from the different components of the Project.
SHARED VALUE
This is an investment of more than 38 million dollars in the cocoa farming communities.
Each ally contributes from their experience to the transformation of the Colombian countryside.
Creating shared value means to solve a social issue by means of a business model, a business that manages to create economic value (or benefit) from solving a social issue.
PROJECT SCHEDULE
ALLIES
+USAID COLOMBIA:
It is the United States Agency for International Development. They are the ones who fund the project.
+LUKER FOUNDATION:
A foundation that believes that an educated and entrepreneurial person can transform and generate development for themselves and their community. They are the ones who manage the project from their Manizales branch. In addition, by means of their Manizales Más program, they lead the improvement of startups in Tumaco.
+LUKER CHOCOLATE:
A company with more than 125 years of history in the production of fine flavor cocoa chocolate. They are in charge of technically guiding cocoa farmers to increase their productivity and thus improve their income.
+ENEL:
An energy company with a broad presence at the national level. It is an ally who has donated the land to establish an anchor crop in Huila, with spaces to strengthen the learning process of the project’s producers.
+EAFIT UNIVERSITY:
A university located in Medellín, Antioquia. They are in charge of helping the cocoa associations to make technical, administrative, and commercial improvements. Moreover, their task is to strengthen startups in Huila, Bajo Cauca, and Urabá.
+SALDARRIAGA CONCHA FOUNDATION:
A foundation that mainly works towards the inclusion of elderly people and those with disabilities by means of healthy coexistence environments. They are in charge of implementing the resilience component, strengthening the mental health of cocoa farming communities.
+THE SUSTAINABLE TRADE INITIATIVE – IDH:
It is an institution that groups different sectors and seeks to promote social, environmental, and economic balance in the territories. They funded the project’s expansion to Hobo and Algeciras.
+MANIZALES MÁS
A Luker Foundation program that articulates the startup ecosystem of Manizales. In The Cacao Effect, they provide training for women entrepreneurs in Tumaco.
“This alliance supports The Chocolate Dream,
the sustainability hallmark of Luker Chocolate”
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