RECOCARNO
(Réseau des Cooperatives de Café du Region Nord)
- 5,000 smallholder coffee growers
- Located in Cap Haitien the north of Haiti, 130 km from the capital Port au Prince
- Established in 1997
- Partners with Cafédirect since 1998
did you know?
Cafédirect bought RECOCARNO's first ever container of coffee back in 1998….
Challenges faced by farmers....
The condition of Haïti's roads is a major problem and RECOCARNO members farms frequently have no road access and sometimes a mountain track represents the only way of reaching a coffee farmers' village.
Valere Jean,
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RECOCARNO member
“Fairtrade represents the first step in helping Haitian farmers out of poverty. It has brought many changes-not just economic but social too. We feel that we are part of a community now and with the premium we can send our children to school.”