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2. Organization of Presentation
• COMUS background
• Coffee and subsistence farming in San
Francsico Javier
• Organic Coffee production
• Rainbow and COMUS
• Future Plans
• Questions for the Board
3. COMUS
• In 2009, Rainbow of Hope partnered with COMUS,
The Association of United Communities of
Usulután
ASOCIACIÓN COORDINADORA DE COMUNIDADES UNIDAS DE USULUTÁN
ENTIDAD DE INTERÉS SOCIAL, NO LUCRATIVO, APOLÍTICA, NI RELIGIOSA
4. COMUS
• COMUS is a community based organization in one of the
poorest regions of El Salvador, San Francisco Javier,
Usulután.
5. COMUS
• For the last 19 years COMUS
has organized and run
numerous basic community
support programs for the 44
communities (25,000 people)
they represent
• Their programs include
health care,
community education and
organization,
Photo courtesy of COMUS
micro-credit
6. COMUS
• While COMUS receives funds
from various national and
international development aid
organizations, its focus is on long
term sustainability
• Its primary goal is to generate
all of the funds for its social
programs from profits garnered
from its agricultural production
initiatives:
a small, local, coffee processing
facility;
an ecological brick manufacturing
process, as well as Photo courtesy of COMUS
medicinal plant production and
processing.
7. COMUS is a shining example of a
grassroots NGO, developed and run by
the people it assists.
8. Rainbow and COMUS
• In 2009, Rainbow of Hope
partnered with COMUS to help
them improve one of their key
focus areas:
organic production and
processing of coffee by the
small subsistence farmers in the
San Francisco Javier area.
Photo courtesy of COMUS
9. • In the coffee business, elevation is everything
• The higher you go, the more production you get and the
more desirable the flavours of the coffee.
Most of the farmers in this region struggle to earn even a subsistence
living because
Their land is located at low to mid- elevation
There is little water available in the area,
The distance to get what little coffee they produce to a
processing plant is(was) very long
10. Coffee and Subsistence Farming in San
Francisco Javier
• With the help of some international aid funds and the ingenuity and hard
work of a remarkable of young Scottish man named Jamie Coutts, COMUS
built, from bits of scrap metal and old machinery, a coffee processing plant
(called a beneficio in Spanish) of their own
Photos courtesy of COMUS
11. Coffee and Subsistence Farming in
San Francisco Javier
• The plant came on line in 2003
giving the community a critical
boost.
• Although as individual farmers
they did not produce much coffee,
as a group, bringing their coffee to
a their own processing facility, they
were able to supply a market in
local towns for coffee.
• As COMUS is a non-profit
organization, the profits from the
plant were directed back into their
community support programs
12. Organic Coffee Production
• Because of their focus on
sustainable low input,
agricultural practices, COMUS
has promoted organic coffee
production
• COMUS has achieved official
organic certification from BCS
Germany for
organic production on 124
manzanas (91 hectares) of coffee
as well as for the coffee
processing plant
13. Organic Coffee Production
• Farms that had removed their
coffee to grow sugar cane are now
being replanted with a mix of
coffee and native trees to
provide shade for the coffee.
• Shade is critical for coffee at low
to mid-elevations as it increases
the quality of the beans the
coffee bushes produce.
• The native trees and fruit trees
planted along with the coffee also
provide additional food for these
subsistence farmers, thereby
improving their food security.
Photo courtesy of J. Coutts
14. COMUS Organic Coffee Production:
Sustainable Business
• The COMUS coffee
brand is “El Taburete”
– named after the local
volcanoe
• Their coffee is
characterized by a low
acidity and a full, but
mild flavour and scent.
• Most of the coffee
produced by the San
Fransico Javier coffee
processing facility is sold
to local markets.
15. Organic Coffee Production
The farmers have
• adopted organic techniques for
coffee production, and
• have received training in
improved coffee growing
practices,thereby enabling them
to grow
More coffee and
higher quality coffee suitable
for the more lucrative
international fair trade organic
coffee markets
Photo courtesy of J. Coutts
16. International Organic Coffee Market
Photo courtesy of J. Coutts
• An export market for their high quality organic coffee has
been identified in New York and Europe
• To meet the demands of this large organic fair-trade coffee
market, the capacity of the farmer’s processing plant needed to be
expanded
17. Rainbow and the Coffee Processing Plant
• The processing plant in San
Francisco Javier was plagued with
problems due to frequent power
outages, common in these remote
rural areas.
• Without power, the coffee
processing came to a halt and
hundreds of pounds of coffee
spoiled.
• As well, the facility did not have
enough capacity to process the
amount of coffee that could be
generated by the farmers in the area,
given their improved production.
18. Rainbow Support
• In 2009, Rainbow of Hope
provided funds for a
generator to keep the
power running through the
processing season
19. Rainbow Support
• Rainbow also
provided funds for a
sheller and a coffee
bean transportation
device (an elevator)
which allowed more
efficient processing
of the coffee.
Don and Jaimie and the elevator
20. Rainbow and the Coffee Processing Plant
• These additions enabled
the plant to increase its
output by three fold.
21. Rainbow Support
• As well, some Rainbow
funds were used to permit
COMUS to purchase more
coffee beans from the small
producers in the high season
• This encouraged more
marginalized farmers to
plant and maintain organic
coffee stands.
Photos courtesy J. Coutts
22. Next Steps
• A key goal for the COMUS coffee project is to
produce and process enough high quality organic
coffee to fill a container for shipment to Europe or
the USA.
• The objective identified is to build sufficient
capacity to fill one container with organic coffee for
export by 2015
• This requires improvement in productivity both at
the processing facility as well as at the farms
23. Production Facility
Key items leading to meeting
the objective are:
Construction of an
additional drying patio:
$15,000 USD
Purchase of a new bagger:
$ 5,800 USD
Purchase of a new washer:
$ 5,700 USD
24. Production
• Facilitate bringing
coffee in from fields,
carrying coffee targeted
at local towns to
markets:
Purchase of truck
$8,000 USD
Photo courtesy J. Coutts
25. Farm Production
• Increase finca production
by renovating >30 yr old
trees
establish nurseries in 5
communities( different
elevations, different soil
types) each growing 5000
seedlings for out-planting
$7750/yr for 5 years
26. Farm Production
• Establish demonstration
and training site for organic
coffee production,
medicinal plant production
$4,000 to establish site
(renovate old bushes on 1
Mz, replant 1 Mz)
$2,500 purchase coffee
seedlings and medicinal
plant seedlings
$4,500 training (22 Photo courtesy J. Coutts
workshops over 5 years in
4 communities)
27. Farm Production
• Scale up compost
(fertilizer) production,
for use on organic
farms, and for sale to
generate $’s for
community programs
• Construction of
compost facility
$15,000
28. Food Security
• Provide food and
economic security to
community producers in
the lower elevation lands
• These coffee plantations
are most vulnerable to
climate instability
• Also, they cannot produce
coffee in sufficient
quantities and of sufficient
quality to make more than
a subsistence living
29. Food Security
• $100 (~ 30) fruit/nut trees
and vegetable seeds
provided to each of 50
producers in the 400 to 800
m elevation zone
– Total $5,000
• Provide technical support
for the farmers through
training workshops as
described in demo site and
Visits by COMUS
agriculture promoters once
per month to provide
agronomic advice
30. For this investment, over 5 years
• the number of
producers supplying
the plant, and
benefiting from the
training increases from
49 to 210.
Photo courtesy COMUS
31. Returns on Investment
45,000.00
40,000.00
35,000.00
30,000.00
25,000.00
Annual funds to COMUS social
20,000.00 programs
15,000.00
10,000.00
5,000.00
0.00
1 2 3 4 5 6
For the $105,000 investment, community programs are projected to
receive $150,000 dollars over the 6 years.
If wages are included in the above benefits, for the $105,000
investment: $420,000 are returned to the community
over the 6 years
32. Summary of Benefits
raising of producer family incomes through the sale of the
coffee,
improving watershed condition through planting of trees,
increased profits from the processing plant will permit
expansion of the COMUS micro-credit program,
increase social program support for 200 families with under-
nourished children and:
fully establish a long term, commercially and ecologically
viable, organic coffee production base for small farmers in the
Usulután region
33. Summary and
Questions for the Board
• Izalco project has reached a self sustaining status, if
alternative funding sources are not found by December 31,
2010, funds for this project will be re-focused to the coffee
program
• Funding for Sonsocate, Morozan and the school garden will
be maintained at a base level (supplies, wages for 2 farmers)
• Does the board feel this (the coffee project) is a project they
are willing to support?
• Does the board think this project might be received well at
CIDA if we were to pursue matching funding there?