CESMACH
COMMUNITY PARTNER
Apicultores Real del Triunfo
Community Partner in Chiapas, Mexico
CESMACH is a coffee cooperative of 400 members in Chiapas, Mexico. Their farmers grow coffee organically in the El Triunfo Bioreserve buffer zone, an area that protects the nearby and important cloud forest and tropical rainforest ecosystems.
We began working with CESMACH in 2013, after coffee rust struck and devastated coffee farms throughout Latin America, to develop effective long-term strategies to overcome food insecurity and inadequate coffee livelihoods.
Our main activity with CESMACH was the creation of a beekeeping cooperative called Apicultores Real del Triunfo (ART), which is still under the umbrella of CESMACH and serves as a channel to provide beekeepers with technical assistance and honey commercialization capabilities, so farmers can diversify their income from coffee.
Recently we have also started an agroforestry activity, which provides multiple economic and ecosystem benefits to coffee farmers.
LOCATION
Chiapas, Mexico
PARTNER SINCE
2013
FAMILIES
400
AGROFORESTRY FAMILIES
378
BEEKEEPER PARTICIPANTS
31
Beekeeping, Agroforestry, Promoters, Capacity Training
ACTIVITIES
Community Coordinator Highlights
Rigoberto Hernandez
Nombre: Rigoberto Hernández Jonapá
Rigo tiene más de 10 años de trabajar en la cooperativa CESMACH, en el año 2017 asumió el cargo de coordinador local de diversificación productiva y a partir del 2021 también coordina el grupo apícola en Apicultores Real del Triunfo.
Sus principales actividades son las siguientes:
Coordinar actividades con grupos de base de la cooperativa CESMACH para desarrollar pequeños proyectos de diversificación productiva
Coordinar actividades de la cooperativa Apicultores Real del Triunfo para fortalecer el programa de asistencia técnica para las y los socios, así como la administración interna y el proceso de acopio y comercialización de la producción.
Apoyar en la realización de acciones de fortalecimiento organizativo y de capacidades humanas al interior de cooperativa y filiales.
Sus principales intereses son: Colaborar en el diseño e implementación de estrategias de desarrollo comunitario que fomenten el desarrollo humano y la soberanía alimentaria principalmente.
Name: Rigoberto Hernández Jonapá
Rigo has more than 10 years of working in the CESMACH cooperative, in 2017 he assumed the position of local coordinator of productive diversification and from 2021 he also coordinates the beekeeping group in Apicultores Real del Triunfo.
His main activities are as follows:
Coordinate activities with grassroots groups of the CESMACH cooperative to develop small productive diversification projects 2.
Coordinate activities of the cooperative Apicultores Real del Triunfo to strengthen the technical assistance program for members, as well as the internal administration and the process of collection and marketing of production.
To support the realization of organizational and human capacity building actions within the cooperative and its subsidiaries.
His main interests are: Collaborate in the design and implementation of community development strategies that promote human development and food sovereignty mainly.