Our Producer Partners
Reconnecting Consumers with Producers
As a leading Fair Trade co-operative, we work closely with our cocoa and sugar producer partners to ensure transparency, respect and fairness in the supply chain from farmers to consumers, from the ingredients to the final products.
To accomplish this, we visit our producer partners in the South to learn more about their challenges and successes. Similarly, we are increasingly working to bring producers here 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. Examples include:
- Providing support for new initiatives and advance credit to producers for pre-harvest financing.
- Working in solidarity with Dominican cocoa farmers to protest the Dominican government’s unfair cocoa tax. We were able to distribute information to both the Dominican Embassy in Canada and the Canadian Embassy in the Dominican Republic.
Through direct, long-term relationships and a shared commitment to quality, these partnerships support a common goal of improving conditions for producers and their communities.
We source our cocoa and sugar ingredients for all of our Cocoa Camino products from five producer co-operatives in four countries. Our cocoa comes from co-ops in the Dominican Republic and Peru, while our sugar is sourced from co-operatives in Paraguay and Costa Rica.
