From small farms to global bids 

This October, coffee buyers from around the world have the chance to participate in an online auction featuring exceptional coffees from Peru and Colombia from cooperatives supported by the Progreso Foundation. On October 28 and 29, 2025, registered participants can bid on lots curated by 3 producer organizations: 

  • Rutas del Inca, a Peruvian cooperative with 275 members since 2013 (Fairtrade & Organic), offers two standout lots: Inka Essence and Chasqui Reserva. Inka Essence reflects the enduring Inca legacy—ancestral wisdom, respect for nature, and a deep connection to the land—grown at high altitudes in Cajamarca. Chasqui Reserva honors the chasquis, the messengers of the Inca Empire, combining exclusivity with generations of collective knowledge. Together, they showcase both quality and living heritage. 
  • Aromas del Valle, with 596 members since 2015 (Fairtrade, Organic, Rainforest Alliance), is dedicated to closing gender gaps and empowering women in specialty coffee. Their lot, Mestiza, raises awareness of women’s work in the sector, while the microlot from Norbil Pérez Tello of Finca La Chirimoya features innovative Geisha coffees shaped by Cajamarca’s unique microclimates. These lots highlight both inclusivity and excellence. 
  • Global Cafés, a Colombian cooperative with 256 members since 2012 (Fairtrade, Organic, UTZ, SPP), presents Cima Ancestral and Conexión. Cima Ancestral offers bright acidity, notes of panela, lemon, and honey, and a lively body. Conexión features chocolate and orange notes, medium body, citric acidity, and light nutty aftertaste. These coffees reflect the cooperative’s commitment to quality, traceability, and the flavors of Colombian highlands. 

Organized by Progreso and Beyco, with the support of V-Auction, the auction runs for two days and offers buyers the opportunity to bid directly on lots from producers. The auction offers a unique way for producers to showcase their coffees to a global audience and for buyers to discover new sourcing opportunities. It’s a space to explore a variety of coffee profiles, connect with previously unknown producer organizations, and potentially establish long-term partnerships. 

Beyond the cups themselves, the event highlights the people and communities behind the coffees. By bringing buyers and producers together in one platform, the auction opens doors to new connections and collaborations, helping participants navigate the global coffee market in fresh ways. 

The auction will take place online and is open to all interested buyers. Registration is now available through the auction platform. 

Auction Days: October 28–29, 2025 
Registration link: beycoauctions.v-auction.com/en/ 

Major updates to the Beyco Farmer App

Please see the Beyco website at www.beyco.nl

We are excited to announce a major update to the Beyco Farmer App, packed with new features designed to revolutionize the cocoa trade. Here’s a detailed look at what you can expect with this week’s release.

Cocoa sellers can now access loans directly through our platform, providing crucial financial support to help them grow and manage their operations more effectively. Our loan module has been updated to cater to coffee and cocoa sellers, ensuring that all our users can benefit from financial assistance tailored to their needs.

Traders and buyers can now request cocoa samples through the platform, simplifying the process of evaluating and purchasing cocoa products, fostering better decision-making and smoother transactions.

Cocoa deliveries can now be grouped within the BFA Dashboard, offering a more organized and streamlined approach to managing multiple deliveries, and enhancing overall efficiency. Additionally, you can publish cocoa deliveries as offers directly from the BFA Dashboard, facilitating quicker and more effective trading.

Sellers can now directly publish dried beans offers from the BFA, increasing visibility and making it easier for potential buyers to access these products. Traders also benefit by being able to sell and combine the dried beans they have in stock, providing more flexibility and better inventory management.

Both sellers and traders can now create liquor offers. Sellers can start from scratch or convert their dried beans into liquor, while traders can manage their liquor stocks, starting from zero, buying from sellers, or converting their dried beans. This conversion process maintains product traceability, ensuring transparency and quality control throughout the supply chain.

We’ve made significant improvements in how prices, differentials, and quantities are displayed during negotiations and in contracts, ensuring clearer and more accurate information for all parties involved. Our updated website now features a comprehensive ‘About Beyco’ page, providing detailed insights into our mission, values, and the services we offer.

We’ve also enhanced the user interface for cocoa offers. This includes a page views counter, allowing users to check how many times their offer page has been visited, and an accordion feature for easily viewing offers with multiple products. Based on user research, we’ve re-ordered the information to align with user preferences and needs.

Finally, we’ve improved our error messages to provide more detailed feedback. Users will now receive specific messages when their password is incorrect and clear indications when uploads fail due to file size issues.

Stay tuned for more updates and enhancements, and as always, we welcome your feedback to help us make Beyco even better!

The one who controls the access has the key

In today´s digital world, for smallholder farmer groups to trade smoothly they must have real-time and direct access to their supply chain data. It is therefore that Progreso offers them capacity-building so that they do not need to go through any third party to have access to their data. However, since the amount of small-holder farmer groups that need to be supported in high-quality data management is too large for Progreso, as a sole small-scale NGO, to handle, Progreso has initiated a partnership with Solidaridad East and Central Africa (Solidaridad ECA).

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Quality Training and Marketing Empowerment with the Bushika Cooperative in Uganda

Last week, on Thursday 18th, and Friday 19th of January, 2024, Beyco Implementation Officer in Uganda, Brian, and Progreso´s Quality Consultant, Yvette, visited the Bushika Integrated Area Cooperative Enterprise Limited. The purpose of our visit was to enhance the quality practices within the organization and empower its marketing team with the effective use of the Beyco trading platform.

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World of Coffee Forum 2023

Hosted by the Speciality Coffee Association (SCA), the World of Coffee Forum drew in more than 10,000 passionate attendees from an astounding 130 countries. Among the delegates were some of our very own colleagues from Progreso: our Managing Director, Anneke Goede, the Senior Product Manager of Beyco, Federica Marra, as well as our Program Managers Yasmin Córdova and Daan Mulder, overseeing Latin America and Africa respectively.

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