Eight co-operatives of mostly small-scale, organic family farmers in the Dominican Republic, Costa Rica, Peru, Panama, Ecuador and Paraguay; plus two small worker co-operatives, one in Canada, and one in the U.S. (Equal Exchange). Besides ourselves these groups include:

• CONACADO (the National Confederation of Dominican Cocoa Producers). This co-operative includes 9,000 small-scale farmers, or 25% of all Dominican cacao growers.www.conacado.com.do/
  
  
• COCABO (the Multiservice Cacao Co-operative of Bocatorena). Founded in 1952, it was the first agricultural co-op established in Panama. COCABO is an organization of 1,500 small-scale cacao farmers, mostly of the Naso and Ngobe peoples, in the Bocas del Toro province.
  
  
• CACVRA (Cooperativa Agraria Cafetelera del Valle Rio Apurímac), and El Quinacho, two co-ops of approximately 1,500 small-scale coffee and cacao growers (total) in southern Peru.
  
  
• Four co-ops of small-scale sugar cane farmers. Three in Paraguay (Montillo, Arroyense, and Manduvirá) and one in Costa Rica (Asoprodulce).
  
  
• La Siembra. Like Equal Exchange, La Siembra is a worker-owned co-operative dedicated to Fair Trade. They are based in Ottawa, Canada and have their own brand of fairly traded organic cocoa and sugar products, Cocoa Camino, for the Canadian market. They help to coordinate the ingredient sourcing and production of our various cocoa and sugar products. www.lasiembra.com