Specialty washed robustas enhanced in Uganda

14 October 2011,

For the last year and a half, Progreso has been working together with Ugacof and Agro Eco Louis Bolk Institute to enhance Robusta coffee quality and yield through the involvement of farmers in the ...

Coffee Market issues addressed at Ramacafe

02 September 2011, Nicaragua

Marieke Rodenhuis attended the tenth anniversary of the coffee conference Ramacafe in Nicaragua in order to get up-to-date on the latest developments and meet with different partners that the ...

Great achievements in Kenya

29 July 2011, Kenya

Last September, Angel Mario Martinez, Coordinator of the Progreso Program visited the three organisations the programme works with in Kenya. During his visit, Angel Mario witnessed the results such ...

New opportunities in Mexico

13 June 2011, Mexico

The Progreso Program is working on setting up a support program for several organisations in the important coffee region of Chiapas. Program manager Marieke Rodenhuis visited several organisations to ...

Farmers in Ivory Coast preparing to become certified

08 May 2011, Ivory Coast

Despite some delays due to the political situation in Ivory Coast, the activities Progreso supports there have resumed. The organisations CACOCI and CANYSSI are preparing over 800 farmers to become ...

Progreso Fund update

12 April 2011, Peru and Papua New Guinea

In the past few months, the Progreso Fund has approved two new pre-financings for two very promising organizations: the CEPRO ...

Manager's School in Rwanda

12 April 2011, Rwanda

In beautiful Rwanda, the trainings on the first two modules of the ...

MIDCA analysis workshop

12 April 2011, Moyobamba, Peru

Per Progreso’s request, Peruvian consultants from Capirona ...

Central de Productores Yaneshas

12 April 2011, La Selva Central del Perú

This past March Angel Mario Martinez, general coordinator of the Progreso Program, visited the coffee producers from the native Yanesha communities in the Selva Central region of Peru. Three years ...

Coffee project Luwero in Uganda

11 April 2011, Luwero Region, Uganda

Written with the collaboration of Stephanie Dreifuss, Deputy Country Director, ...

Manager's Schools in Peru

16 February 2011,

Together with Peruvian NGO Capirona, Progreso started an initiative in 2007 called the Manager's School in the Selva Central and Huallaga regions of Peru.

Within this ...

Impressive participation in coffee challenge

01 February 2011,

Despite being a world renowned coffee producer, little is known of the true value of a Kenyan Coffee Cup back home! Therefore, Progreso Network and Fair Trade Kenya Organization (FTOK) in ...

Organic fertilizer production in Nicaragua

27 January 2011,

Over the last few years, Progreso-partner UCPCO from San Juan de Rio Coco in Nicaragua has done a lot of work ...

Hydroelectric Plant in Pangoa Peru

11 January 2011,

Four years ago, Progreso financed the purchase and installation of a second turbine to produce electricity in a hydroelectric power plant in Read more >>

Exchange visit at Nyeri Country

20 December 2010,

Written with the collaboration of Raymond Gitau, Chairman of Ndumberi Coffee Farmers C.S Ltd.

In December 2010, Read more >>

Better production practices in Haiti

02 December 2010,

The work of Progreso in Haiti focuses on two organizations: the cocoa producer group called FECANNO and the coffee producer group ...

Big success for women of Chajul

08 November 2010,

As reported before, Progreso funded a project of the women's association in Chajul Guatemala to improve their skills and knowledge of producing handmade woven products for the international market. ...

Coffee a Cup at the Coffee Shows in Uganda

04 October 2010,

Coffee a Cup - Progreso member since 2009 - participated in three of the four coffee shows in September 2010. Read more >>

Diversification activities in Chajul

14 August 2010,

The association "Mujeres unidas por la vida" (linked to the Asociación Chajulense coffee cooperative) has a new textile collection consisting of several interior and fashion ...

Supporting organic coffee and cocoa production

15 July 2010,

Beginning in April 2009, Progreso has been supporting trainings to 10 coffee and cocoa cooperatives from Peru and Ecuador on organic agriculture. As a conclusion of the activities, an International ...

Progreso in Papua New Guinea

19 June 2010,

Progreso works together with Monpi Sustainable Services to provide cocoa seedlings and agricultural trainings to empower and motivate cocoa producing communities of the Madang and New Ireland ...

COOPAC, first pre-financing in Africa

30 May 2010,

The organization COOPAC in Rwanda, has received pre-financing from Progreso Fund in order to collect the coffee from its producers and to be able to honour this year's export contracts.

Read more >>

Microorganism technique now in Africa

10 May 2010,

By Andrew Joseph Kalema
Agro Eco Louis Bolk Institute Eastern Africa Branch, Uganda.

For the first time in Africa ...

International certificate course on organic agriculture

30 April 2010,

For two weeks, more than a 100 people from 45 producer organisations and NGO's from different countries, such as Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua ...

Meeting our partners at the SCAA 2010

20 April 2010,

During the annual exposition of the SCAA, Progreso organised a breakfast for its partner organizations in order to inform them about the activities executed in 2009 and to present the activities to ...

Cocoa producers in Amsterdam

10 January 2010,

Last November, cocoa importers, traders and producers gathered to celebrate the 2nd Chocolate Festival in Amsterdam, ChocA is an event that is gaining importance within the cocoa sector in the ...

Progreso with Microorganisms

17 December 2009,

At the facilities of the Cooperative La Divisora in Tingo Maria, Peru, more than one hundred smallholders from Ecuador, Colombia, Peru and Uganda gathered together during three days in October at the ...

Participation on the RAMACAFE 2009

09 September 2009,

RAMACAFE was for the producer organizations working with the Progreso Program a great opportunity to interact with important main ...

Progreso Internet Community

01 April 2009,

The Progreso Program and Fund have created an Internet Community. The program participants as well as beneficiaries from the Fund can access this group by clicking on this link: Read more >>

New Progreso Website

01 April 2009,

Progreso has launched its new website. We hope the information included in this portal will give participants, candidates and other visitors a general idea of the Program.

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