International economic development helps build prosperous communities. Our cooperative approach creates global economic opportunities, especially for marginalized communities.
Our Approach
Building income and sustainable business forms the core of NCBA CLUSA’s approach to economic development.
Our organization works within the entire market system, ranging from small-scale farmers and government agencies to input providers and financial institutions, to help people accomplish lasting economic growth — with our support, agribusinesses, entrepreneurs and farmers increase their economic benefits. We work with these groups to develop new markets and improve existing economic opportunities. With NCBA CLUSA’s support, they increase productivity, improve quality and connect with the global market.
Our collaborative approach strengthens business relationships, policy environments and institutional capacity in support of inclusive and sustainable economic growth.
Empowering people to work within market systems to raise their standards of living through cooperation and investment reaps various benefits. Our activities create jobs for women, men and youth in improved production, value-addition services and strong business relationships with suppliers and markets.
Successful Projects
We’ve cooperated with various groups in multiple countries.
USDA Coffee Rehabilitation and Agriculture Diversification
This project ran from September 2014 to September 2019 in El Salvador.
In response to the coffee rust crisis that has caused extreme harvest losses, this El Salvador project helped rehabilitate the coffee industry by focusing on two primary priorities:
- Enhancing the productivity of the coffee value chain
- Developing trade
By incorporating enhanced technologies and techniques and bettering post-harvest products, this project enabled the sale of 23,500 tons of coffee. Fifteen thousand coffee hectares benefited from improved technologies, and the project sold 4,500 diversified crops.
