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Partner description:

Cooperativa de Ahorro y Crédito Norandino Ltda (COOPAC Norandino) is a rural savings and credit cooperative, established in 2005 to support smallholder, FairTrade and organic-certified small-holder farmers in the highlands of Peru who have limited financial resources and market access. While the majority of COOPAC Norandino’s portfolio is concentrated in coffee, the cooperative is also active in sugar cane, cacao, bananas and mangos. The organizations’s strategic alliances with local agriculture cooperatives allows farmers to access price premiums, agricultural trainings, and export to international markets. COOPAC Norandino’s team have strong sector knowledge, allowing them to tailor their financial services to the niche coffee market, and are often active farmers themselves.

A unique lending approach:

COOPAC Norandino provides financing for individual farmers as well as agricultural cooperatives. Loans funded on Kiva are used both to help COOPAC Norandino continue growing its organic coffee and cacao portfolio, and to fund a new low-interest loan product created for Kiva for female cooperative members or spouses to develop rural microenterprises. This new type of loan will help smooth and diversify producer household income, which in turn will smooth COOPAC Norandino's annual cash flow and lower risk exposure in their portfolio, allowing them to continue growing and supporting the entire agricultural value chain. COOPAC Norandino's other non-agricultural loan products, such as their emergency health loan, may be considered for Kiva funding in the future.