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Verde Ventures
Root Capital
Verde Ventures
Verde Ventures is an investment program designed to strengthen small and medium sized enterprises that are strategically important to biodiversity. One component of the program is to provide support to conservation-oriented coffee enterprises that contribute to the conservation of biodiversity through the implementation of sustainable agriculture techniques near protected areas.
Since 1999, Verde Ventures has provided financing to conservation-oriented coffee businesses in Latin America and Asia benefiting over 4,000 producers and helping secure the direct and indirect protection of more than 1 million hectares in regions of high biological importance.
With support from the Starbucks Coffee Company, Verde Ventures has US$2.5 million in credit available for sustainable coffee enterprises. Credit financing ranging from US$30,000 to US$500,000 is available to conservation coffee entities that demonstrate direct benefits to biodiversity conservation.
Program Documents
Verde Ventures Overview
Verde Ventures Overview - Spanish
Verde Ventures Coffee Enterprise Application Form
Verde Ventures Formulario de Solicitud de Financiamiento
Root Capital
Since launching operations in 2000, Root Capital has raised nearly $9.0 million in low-interest loan capital from 55 private investors. With these borrowed funds, the fund has made 123 loans with a gross value of over $18 million to rural producer organizations located in ten countries in Latin America and three countries in East Africa . All told, Root Capital credit has benefited low-income communities in threatened habitats of Mexico (coffee, fisheries, eco-tourism), Guatemala (coffee, spices), Belize (eco-tourism), Nicaragua (coffee), Costa Rica (coffee, cocoa), Honduras (coffee), Ecuador (cocoa, eco-tourism), Peru (coffee, cocoa), Bolivia (coffee), Brazil (acaí fruit), Rwanda (coffee), Kenya (coffee) and Uganda (coffee). Based largely in indigenous communities that lack equitable access to capital, social services, and external markets. Among others, Starbucks Coffee Company, and the U.S. Agency for International Development, support Root Capital. www.rootcapital.org
For more information, email William Foote at wfoote@rootcapital.org or call +617-441-6300.
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