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Foreign capital entry into the coffee chain

Dossier
Running an agro-export operation20-agro-exportar.md
Domain
Exporting agricultural produceagro-exportar
Room
Trade/comercio
Audited
Audited

The chain has ~125,000 producing families (Anacafé, verified in dossier 08) and exports intermediated by global houses that already run local subsidiaries: Volcafe = Peter Schoenfeld, S.A. (zone 16, Paseo Cayalá; sourcing, milling, export, quality laboratory, ~5,500 growers in Huehuetenango, Santa Rosa, Antigua and Cubulco — verified); NKG = Sertinsa; ECOM = Exportcafé; and the independents Unex Guatemala and Cafcom (with its own dry mill) — these four not re-verified. The typical entry is to acquire or partner with an exporter-mill, not with farms. The figure of '210 municipalities with coffee' does not appear in the 2022 CABI study (Anacafé publishes 204 and 261, depending on the document).

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Figures

Coffee-producing familiesAnacafé
~125,000verified in dossier 08

Caveat

the NKG, ECOM, Unex and Cafcom subsidiaries were not re-verified

Sources

Organizations named in the answer

  • Unex GuatemalaAn independent coffee exporterCompany case
  • CafcomAn independent coffee exporter with its own dry millCompany case
  • CABIConsultancy that estimated for the Chamber of Agriculture (Cámara del Agro) the impact of the 2018 land invasions (−0.6% of national output)Supplier

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