Acopio empowers coffee cooperatives by strengthening management processes and enabling them to provide better supply chain data visibility to roasters. Learn more at http://acopio.org

2. Fair Trade USA has spent the last 15 years building relationships with farmers and
workers in supply chains around the world, and we have connected them to a
variety of services to help strengthen their organizations.

3. 1998
Fair Trade USA founded
Population // 5.9b
Poverty // 1.7b
Internet // 150mm
Mobile // 70mm
Smartphone // 00
When our work began, access to the internet in the coffee growing regions of the
world was virtually impossible.

4. 2014
Today
Population // 7b
Poverty // 1.2b
Internet // 2.7b
Mobile // 4b
Smartphone // 1b
Since then, global internet connectivity has exploded. Agricultural organizations in
some of the most remote places in the world are gaining access to the internet via
a variety of avenues.

5. 2017
Projected
Population // 7.3b
Poverty // 657mm
Internet // 3.6b
Mobile // 5b
Smartphone // 1.5b
And the growth shows no signs of stopping. We are helping give smallholder
producer organizations an edge by connecting them to technologies that can help
their businesses operate more efficiently.

6. Smallholder producer organizations have identified the need to move business
critical data away from pen & paper and into a format that can be efficiently
analyzed.

7. Farmers around the world are issued paper receipts when dropping off coffee,
cocoa, and other crops at collection stations. In theory someone enters the
information from these receipts into the computer, but busy days often preclude
this task.

8. The primary goal of Acopio is enabling collection station workers to digitally record
transactions with farmers. Removing pen and paper from the process puts data in a
machine-readable format that the organization can use in several ways.

9. Recording harvest data with Acopio provides the ability to see production variation
at the farmer level, which is used to determine micro-finance eligibility and is
aggregated to forecast organizational production.

10. Recording quality characteristics associated with each harvest enables the
organization to better communicate the value of their product to buyers, financiers,
and others.

11. Once farmers and their organizations have better visibility into their operations,
they are empowered with the ability to make data-driven decisions. They also now
have the ability to provide better data to financial and supply chain stakeholders.

12. When an individual smallholder organization has data points from each of their
members, they can provide financiers and buyers with a robust data model to
predict risk and need.

13. Learn more at Acopio.org