Join us for a presentation on our new initiative, The Small Farmer Fund, and learn how together, we can help farmers stay on their land.

Live Zoom Event
Thursday, May 8

1:00pm Eastern | 12:00pm Central | 10:00am Pacific

Equal Exchange has a long history of working with small farmer co-operatives outside of our traditional role as a buyer. We have supported and implemented a number of projects and grant programs that complement our commercial activities while providing support to our co-operative partners, who continue to face unprecedented challenges. 

Over the last decade, we have been engaged in a USAID program known as the Cooperative Development Program (CDP), working with more than a dozen cooperatives in six different countries on productivity, governance, quality, gender equity, youth inclusion, and adaptation to climate change.

We have successfully helped co-ops to bring about systemic change, build capacity, innovate, and train current and future leaders. The work has been collaborative, and the impact has been far-reaching across coffee, cacao, banana, and sugar producer co-ops.

With the abrupt termination of USAID, these advances have ground to a halt. But we are determined to find a way forward and preserve key elements of our CDP project work at whatever scale we can reliably fund.

We have seen the impact that these programs can make on cooperative communities, both in bringing about change and in reinforcing their businesses so that farmers can stay on their land. It’s important that we continue to build on this success.

To this end we have created a new Small Farmer Fund as a way to pool community resources and continue this important development work. 

Please join us to learn more about this work and help us alert more people to this additional opportunity to support small farmers and their cooperatives.