Meet Miurel Fargas, Beyco Implementation Officer in Nicaragua

Miurel Fargas brings something special to the Beyco team: years of hands-on experience in Nicaragua’s northern coffee zone, working directly with farmers in the field and supporting the commercial cooperatives that bring their coffee to market.

Her background spans the full arc of the coffee value chain, from farm-level technical assistance, visiting producers plot by plot, to accompanying and strengthening marketing organizations. That grounded, relational approach is exactly what the Beyco Implementation Officer role calls for.

For Miurel, joining Progreso is a chance to deepen her connection with producer organizations while introducing a new kind of tool: the Beyco Farmer app, a digital solution built to support smallholder farmers and the cooperatives that serve them.

We’re glad to have her on the team.

We’re looking for a Country Manager in Colombia

We have an exciting vacancy: Progreso is looking for a Country Manager based in Colombia.

If you have a strong background in financial analysis and business advisory with coffee or cocoa producer organizations, and you care about the sector beyond the spreadsheet, this role might be a good fit.

As Country Manager, you’ll be embedded in our Colombia operations, working closely with our agroforestry expert in-country and our Latin America Programme Manager. Day-to-day, that means analyzing the financial health of producer organizations, advising on everything from cash flow projections to price risk management, and helping to build and sustain the partnerships that make projects actually happen. You’ll also collaborate with colleagues across Peru and Nicaragua, and play an active role in how Progreso represents itself externally in Colombia.

We’re looking for someone with at least five years of hands-on experience working with coffee or cocoa cooperatives in a financial or business advisory capacity, a degree in economics, accounting, or business administration, and fluency in Spanish (basic English is also required). Multi-stakeholder project experience and a track record of facilitating training or capacity-building processes are a strong plus.

The role is full-time (40 hours/week) on a consultancy basis, hybrid, and based in Colombia.

Applications close 17 May 2026. Send your CV to patricia@progreso.nl — virtual interviews are scheduled for 18–22 May.

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Welcome to the team, David!

Progreso Foundation is pleased to welcome a new Project Manager to our team, someone whose path into agricultural development was never a detour, but always the destination.

Rooted from the start in a world where agriculture shapes daily life, our newest colleague built a career guided by a single conviction: that agricultural development must be people-centered, structured, and adapted to local contexts. A Master’s in Management of Agropastoral Enterprises and Organizations gave that conviction a framework; years in the field, with the Ministry of Agriculture, MIRAH, Action Against Hunger, and GIZ, gave it depth.

Across those experiences, the thread remained consistent: analyzing value chains, supporting farmers, and contributing to initiatives that improve agricultural systems in lasting ways. Joining Progreso, he tells us, feels like a natural continuation of that journey.

What motivates him most? Seeing projects come to life on the ground, create real value, and improve the living conditions of communities. That is precisely the kind of energy we want around this work.

Outside the office, he writes, sometimes poetry inspired by rural life, plays football, volunteers, and tends a small garden. We have a feeling all of that will find its way into his work here too.

Welcome to the team, Armand!

We are excited to welcome Kouassi Armand as the new Beyco Officer Côte d’Ivoire, joining us with more than ten years of field experience across West Africa.

Armand’s background spans two worlds that rarely meet in one person: technical agroforestry and rural finance. He has worked as an agricultural client officer at Advans Côte d’Ivoire and as a field supervisor with ICRAF, building a practice around accompanying farmers, strengthening production systems, and promoting sustainable agriculture that delivers real economic and environmental results.

It is that appetite for initiative and new challenges, he tells us, that brought him to Progreso, and we are glad it did.

Welcome, Armand. We look forward to what we will build together.

Welcome to the team, Guy!

We are happy to welcome Guy Laurent Boko as our newest team member, joining us from Côte d’Ivoire.

Guy brings over a decade of hands-on experience in cocoa agriculture, most recently with CEMOI Côte d’Ivoire, where he led the agronomic department and managed fresh cocoa fermentation centers in Sassandra and Abengourou. That combination of field expertise and operational leadership makes him a natural fit for the work we do alongside farming communities.

When we asked Guy what drew him to Progreso, his answer said it all: a deep passion for agricultural communities and a genuine belief in their potential. “I want to participate in this transformation,” he told us, “because I am passionate about agricultural communities and their well-being.“

Outside of work, Guy enjoys music, football, and exploring new places, and we sure hope the Progreso world gives him plenty of all three.

We are thrilled to have him on board and look forward to everything he will bring to this work.