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Green Microfinance

We promote the financial inclusion of producers and their families, so they make the change in using clean energy and implement actions that mitigate climate change effects on their production and their daily lives. “Green microfinance” adapted to their reality, managing the generated risks.

Sustainable Inclusion of Smallholder Algae Farmers in Hinatuan, Philippines

416 vulnerable algae farmers in the Philippines have managed to increase their income by 58%, through their inclusion in the value chain of a Spanish company specialized in the production, processing and marketing of natural hydrocolloids worldwide, extracted from the seaweed.

FRUCAP: Encapsulated fruits to improve nutrition

We include vulnerable farmers in a company’s supply chain that will extend fruit life, transforming them into micro-encapsulated foods that meet the nutritional needs of pregnant children and mothers.

Emilpa: The SMS platform for vulnerable farmers

Climate change, extreme inequality and the low level of development of sectors as important to its economy as agriculture cause poverty to affect 59% of the population.

Quality seed banks to fight hunger

Traditionally, Angola had been a country that lived off agriculture, but 27 years of war has heavily impacted the livelihoods of rural populations. And now, 50% of the population lives in a situation of food insecurity, of which 21% of the cases are extreme. Angola, a population suffering from hunger Local food production is low…

The solitude and isolation of poverty in Ecuador

The objective is simple and complex at the same time: to organize themselves in a group in order to have more bargaining power and to be able to afford better storage for their milk.

Support for land property legalisation of small family farms

The threat of land loss is increasingly present throughout Africa. Large international investors have begun a massive land purchase with mining targets or mere speculation, among other objectives. This is causing small farmers to lose the land that they depend on to eat and earn a living to large corporations. In Angola, the Land Act…

Increase the income of small farmers by introducing soya

Soya is one of the most nutritionally complete foods. For this reason, it has become a highly important crop in rural areas of the provinces of Huambo and Bié, Angola, characterized by high levels of food insecurity. At CODESPA we are working to improve soya production, distribution, and marketing in six farming cooperatives with over…

Harvest storage systems to achieve families’ food security

Angola was the third largest coffee producer in the world and 85% of its population lived from agriculture. From 1975 to 2002 they suffered the longest civil war in Africa which resulted in economic collapse and high levels of extreme poverty across the country. The Civil War has caused great insecurity at the level of…