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As the name states, COPAK specializes in the cultivation, processing and exporting the Congo’s most valuable agricultural products. From its headquarters in Beni, cocoa and medicinal plants are carefully prepared to satisfy its customers worldwide.
The expansion of the processing units in the newly established Mutwanga Industrial Zone enabled COPAK to substantially increase its chia seeds cleaning capacity and coffee processing.
Through its certification programs – Organic, Rainforest Alliance and FairTrade - COPAK offers full traceability and transparency in its operations. Copak takes care of the social and environmental impact of its activities and works in a sustainable way that contributes to the conservation of Biodiversity.
Since its inception COPAK favored the partnership with local cooperatives. Today, more than 10.000 farmers families are working in close collaboration with COPAK through the cooperatives. COPAK is supporting their activities, financing their development and guaranteeing them the access to good agricultural practices and the sales of their products.
Next to the active partnerships with Virunga National Park and Parc National de la Garamba, COPAK also started a collaboration with Biodiversity International and CIAT to investigate the added benefit of multicropping systems for cocoa production in a more sustainable way for both the benefit of the environment and the farmer’s revenues.
COPAK'S purchase has positively impacted over 20,000 people living in the region, increasing household incomes and improving access to vital services.
COPAK
Avenue Gombari 1, Beni
Democratic Republic of Congo
Contact : info@copak.cd
For more than 30 years, Sopral is a major transformer and conditioner of Malagasy East coast products. The main facility is situated in Tamatave, Madagascar’s main port city, situated on the east coast, on the northern edge of the island’s vast rainforests.
SOPRAL produces the Queen of the flavors, i.e. the vanilla (V. planifolia), green peppercorn and tropical fruits (pineapples and lychees) in cans and jars.
SOPRAL organizes the sourcing of the raw material in ways that respect and preserve the natural environment, stimulate the development and wellbeing of local communities and safeguard the efficient use of Madagascar’s precious resources.
Since 1998, SOPRAL has developed stable and long-term relationships with farmers, harvesters and communities in different areas.
The green vanilla beans come directly from farmers in small villages located in the North of the country (SAVA). The green pepper corns come from a network of farmers along the Eastern seaboard of Madagascar. The fruits come from local farmers that enables to have fresh fruits daily.
The continuous presence of SOPRAL allows the sustainability of the activities and the plantations, securing long term revenues to the local farmers. SOPRAL is also providing a continuous agricultural support with independent experts.
QUALITY & TRACEABILITY ARE CENTRAL TO OUR PRODUCTS
Our Tamatave facility is HACCP (since 1998) certified and was the first company in Madagascar to be IFS (since 2011) certified. As from harvest to your place, SOPRAL guarantees full traceability of all batches. All our fruit products are organic and fair trade certified.
Sopral also assembles customer batches according to their own requirements, sensory and analytical parameters. It ensures professional quality inspection.
The Fair Trade Certification allows us to develop partnerships based on dialogue, transparency and respect. We guarantee that fair prices are paid directly to the farmers. SOPRAL also provides health and medical benefits to its employees in Madagascar.
Sopral is member of the « Groupement des Entreprises Franches et Partenaires » (GEFP), the « Groupement des Entreprises de Tamatave » (GEPAT), the « Groupement des Entreprises de Madagascar » (GEM), the « Syndicat Malgache de l’Agriculture Biologique » (SYMABIO) and the GEVM (Groupement des exportateurs de Vanille de Madagascar).
SOPRAL
PK4 Route de Fénérive
Analamalotra
501 Toamasina
Madagascar
Contact : info@sopral.mg
Kamapim means ‘’to develop, to grow and to improve’’ in Papuan local language. Since 2018, Kamapim is committed to high quality, organically grown, fairly traded products with customer satisfaction as our top priority. The first products are Vanilla planifolia and Vanilla tahitensis.
Kamapim is focusing on partnering and training local clans to produce high quality products, helping to set up a landowner’s incorporated group, facilitating banking and civil registration for all, including all women in the commercial activities and revenues, and improving sanitation.
Our first partnerships are rich of already thousands of farmers in Madang and Morobe Provinces and is continuing to grow in several other places.
Officially recognized by authorities, Kamapim ID card system - with QR code barcodes - have been created to give legitimacy to farmers allowing traceability applications, data matrix of sales, farms identification, non-cash payment and training recording.
All this information is georeferenced. Kamapim is working with communication operators mobile and satellite to increase communication in remote areas.
Kamapim strongly supports cashless systems to ease the operations, improve human security and contribute to create a economic dynamic in the remote villages. Kamapim is also working on credit scoring from farm receipts to facilitate microloans to farmers.
Kamapim ambitiously aim to address many of the 17 UN sustainable goals in its business model.
KAMAPIM
Madang 511 (Madang Province)
Papua New Guinea
Contact: info@kamapim.com
Biosucre now is also exporting volumes to the European market.
Bioscure is located in the middle of the sugar cane fields close to Brickaville which is the first production zone in Madagascar.
A subsidiary of the RAMANANDRAIBE family, producing and exporting a series of chocolate produced from the fine cocoa beans from Madagascar.
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Giz is a federal enterprise supporting the German states in implementing their international cooperation projects and help companies and foundations in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals of the 2030 Agenda and realizing their worldwide business potential in developing countries and emerging economies.
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Virunga Origins Chocolate is an ambitious, handcrafted chocolate bar created by a groundbreaking social enterprise.
Virunga Origins Chocolate is a strictly single-origin sourced, Bean-to-Bar chocolate, locally made with beans that are grown, harvested and fermented by the communities bordering the Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
The chocolate’s signature full-bodied and rich taste is achieved through a collaboration between a world-famous chocolatier and local talents.
The Double-Happiness Bean-to-Bar Chocolate
Virunga Origins is a unique enterprise that empowers local communities and gives the Congolese people the ability to retain the value of their natural resources – the key to an economic revolution.
Virunga Origins is also a chocolate brand that’s changing the chocolate industry from within. For too long, the industry has kept most happiness to itself. Too often, profits were not shared, and the actual value addition – the processing and crafting of the final product – was (and is) created far away from where the cocoa is grown.
Not anymore. Virunga Origins makes chocolate at the beans’ source. That’s Bean-to-Bar in its truest form.
Passion & Quality
The Virunga Origins Chocolate recipe is created by the world-famous Belgian chocolatier, Dominique Persoone. The chocolate is then made by hand with a passionate team of local talent. When you buy our chocolate, you enjoy an amazing bar, and at the same time help build a sustainable business.
Dominique Persoone is our world renowned chocolatier, our “shock-o-latier”, who has trained the Virunga Origins team in the noble art of chocolate making, with his singular focus on quality and taste.
Dominique has a reputation of thinking outside the chocolate box. And, for a passionate chocolatier like him, making chocolate where cocoa actually grows is a dream come true. With Virunga Origins, Dominique and the team can literally pick the beans right off the cacao tree.
Deliciousness that Gives Back
The Virunga Origins brand is jointly owned by The World We Want Foundation, Virunga National Park as well as the chocolate “dream team” comprised of Dominique Persoone, the Chocolatier Extraordinaire behind Belgium’s Chocolate Line; Mathieu Brees, founder of the Bean-to-Bar company, Ki’Xocolatl; and Dimitri Moreels, founder and CEO of COPAK.
Our mission is to protect the environment and safeguard the Park for present and future generations, reduce poverty through delivering economic value to the Park ecosystems, and contribute to peace through leveraging the Park as a stabilization instrument. All profits are reinvested into the conservation of the Park and the surrounding communities.
When you buy our chocolate, the farmers around the Virunga National Park get happy. The Park Rangers get happy. The gorillas and other wildlife get superhappy. And when you take your first bite (and second, and third), happiness grows even more. That’s what we call Double Happiness!
DOMINIQUE PERSOONE / THE CHOCOLATE LINE
Belgian most famous “shock-o-latier", Dominique and his “The Chocolate Line”-team is a Belgian producer of high-quality chocolate. Artisan and tasty chocolate with a cool and trendy side.
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Virunga National Park is a UNESCO World Heritage Site located in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Virunga National Park, Africa’s most biodiverse protected area, exists to protect 1/3 of the world’s wild mountain gorillas, over one thousand species of mammal, bird, reptile and amphibian, and provide a brighter future to more than four million people affected by conflict.
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At The World We Want, our aim is to encourage and support organizations which are finding innovative solutions to today’s most pressing global issues – poverty and environmental degradation.
We work with development initiatives that are well-defined, limited in scope, and run by skilled and dedicated social entrepreneurs. Our focus is to provide humanitarian support to the most vulnerable – women and children facing severe poverty – and to foster environmental responsibility and revitalization.
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3W - The World We Want
Birger Jarlsgatan 34, 5tr
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In Raw Papain Production
Virunga Enzymes is the lead player in the zone where papain was borne, i.e. North Kivu (Democratic Republic of Congo). Up to now, Congo remains the most important place in the world to produce the raw material for this enzyme.
The Company is collecting and producing the papain in two villages (Beni, Mutwanga) at the foot of the Ruwenzori Mountain (The Mountains of the Moon), close to the Uganda border which provides excellent soil and an ideal micro climate.
The Company is working with more than 15.000 small growers to produce and collect the latex. Several advisers from Virunga Enzymes are visiting and supporting those farmers providing ,training in finance and good agricultural practices, securing them with recurrent and decent revenues.
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VIRUNGA NATIONAL PARK & VIRUNGA ALLIANCE
Virunga National Park is a UNESCO World Heritage Site located in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Virunga National Park, Africa’s most biodiverse protected area, exists to protect 1/3 of the world’s wild mountain gorillas, over one thousand species of mammal, bird, reptile and amphibian, and provide a brighter future to more than four million people affected by conflict.
The Virunga Alliance was founded on the principle that the Park’s survival depends on its ability to act as an asset for its surrounding communities. Through the responsible and sustainable development of the Park’s key assets – tourism, clean energy, and sustainable agriculture – the Virunga Alliance is working to kick-start a green economy in eastern Congo, for the benefit of its neighbouring communities.
SCAK is one of the active actors in the North Kivu since 2012, exporting agricultural products.
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Avenue Gombari 1, Beni
Democratic Republic of Congo
info@copak.cd
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Virunga Origins make its products locally in Congo, at the border of Virunga Park. The processing factories source directly from the producers, which cuts out the middlemen and so that farmers are remunerated better.
The chocolate factory employs and trains local workers and we prioritize the widows of the Rangers who were killed while protecting the Park.
Virunga Origins empowers small, family businesses. Communities have greater economic opportunity putting more kids in school, saving endangered trees on the hills, and keeping vulnerable youth out of the militias. Creating employment contributes to the protection of one of the world’s most important parks, giving the gorillas, chimps, hippos, elephants, lions, leopards, and all our beloved wildlife a brighter future.
At The World We Want, our aim is to encourage and support organizations which are finding innovative solutions to today’s most pressing global issues – poverty and environmental degradation.
We work with development initiatives that are well-defined, limited in scope, and run by skilled and dedicated social entrepreneurs. Our focus is to provide humanitarian support to the most vulnerable – women and children facing severe poverty – and to foster environmental responsibility and revitalization.
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3W - The World We Want
Birger Jarlsgatan 34, 5tr
SE - 114 29 Stockholm, Sweden
Mail : kirsten.poitras@theworldwewant.se
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Virunga National Park is a UNESCO World Heritage Site located in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Virunga National Park, Africa’s most biodiverse protected area, exists to protect 1/3 of the world’s wild mountain gorillas, over one thousand species of mammal, bird, reptile and amphibian, and provide a brighter future to more than four million people affected by conflict.
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