Capacitación y transferencia tecnológica a pequeños productores de café...

Country where Project will be Implemented: VENEZUELA
Sector of focus: Environment and natural disasters, agriculture and rural development, and micro enterprises.
Project Name: Training and technology transfer to small producers of coffee, to reduce risks of natural disasters, protecting water resources and create jobs for young people in their own coffee shop.
Name of Organization: AGENDAIR
Project Objectives:

1. Improving income of small coffee producers
2. Diversifying the coffee growing areas to supplement their income alternative
3. Train beneficiaries in post-harvest techniques, home processing of raw materials and finished product marketing
4. Create direct and indirect jobs for young people in rural areas
5. Help meet the demand for coffee
6. Preserving the forest coffee to conserve biodiversity, soil, water and prevent flooding and mudslides
7. Replacing fossil fuels with renewable energy to dry crops of coffee

Project Description Please describe main components of the project, as well as the corresponding outputs and outcomes targets and indicators that will be used for monitoring and evaluation.
Component I, Training:
Tasting coffees, 45 young farmers apply knowledge of coffee cupping.
Drying and Storage of Coffee 375 new farmers apply knowledge and use natural drying systems.
Roasting artisan 10 new young farmers formed in roasting, grinding and packaging of coffee.
Barista Training, 40 new young farmers trained to work in the cafeterias.
Direction and management of coffee shops, 12 new young farmers trained to lead and manage the cafeterias.
Marketing of cafes, 16 new young trained farmers to sell coffee.
Component II, Associativity:
Strategic alliances Inclusion of 5 new organizations of farmers to the Consortium of aromatic coffee.
Component III, Technological Innovation
Acquisition of machinery and equipment to develop the coffee value chain 4 new post-harvest benefits of coffee groups operating.
4 new groups of coffee dryers.
1 Roaster craft (38 kg/hr).
Business alliance of small farmers.
4 new Cafes in operation in the states of Barinas, Trujillo and Lara.
In addition to the 2 in Portuguesa.
Component IV, Marketing
Promotion of new brands of coffee. Participation in Trade Shows
Coffee Tasting 4 New brands of coffees with different origins.
12 promotional activities nationwide.
48 coffee tasting.
Component V, Institution building
International congresses
Training agreements
Publishing activities 3 International Forums on coffee Chasbasquén population.
3 agreements with Cooking School (San Cristobal, Valencia and Caracas) and 3 Agreements with Hospitality and Tourism Institute (Mérida, Bocono and La Guaira).
1 publication and DVD with the activities and results achieved.

 

Target Beneficiaries:
Are the target beneficiaries poor and vulnerable groups?

 

 

Who are the beneficiaries of the project? Please describe including target geographic areas.
The direct beneficiaries are the small coffee producers:
Provision will be producing organizations Ospino populations, Biscucuy, Chabasquén, Cordoba and San Jose de la Montana in Portuguesa state. In the state of Lara, producers of the populations of Guárico and Sanare. In Trujillo state, producers Niquitao populations, Boconó and Campo Elías. And, in Barinas state, Altamira populations and Calderas. These populations are less than 150 kilometers away from stocks and Biscucuy Chabasquén, where the operational headquarters will this project.

 

Please describe poverty level or poverty situation of the beneficiary:
Taken into account during the 4 years of implementation 375 coffee producers, and 131 young (children of) crops a year with less than 30 bags of 46 kilograms. Small coffee producers. Do not have pulping equipment for their crops, drying, threshing, much less industrialized to market the finished product. Annual revenue is estimated at 30,000 Bs. (Bs. 2500 / month), which do not cover the monthly food basket. By November 2011 according to the Center of Documentation and Analysis for Workers (CENDA), the cost of food basket was Bs. 3228.29 per month.
Relevance to IDB Country Strategy Is the project consistent with the development objectives of the IDB country strategy?

 

Country Strategy document No.: IDB COUNTRY STRATEGY WITH THE REPUBLIC OF VENEZUELA (2011 - 2014), Priority sectors: protection of water resources, points: 3.14, 3.15, Risk management of natural disasters, points: 3.26, 3.28 (iii), and Social protection, points: 3.32
Describe the relevance the proposed project has to the corresponding IDB Country Strategy.
Venezuela, whose country strategies, protection of water resources, risk management of natural disasters and social protection. As a strategy for protection of water resources, highlights "the protection, sustainable use and recovery of both surface water and groundwater, to meet the demand generated by human needs, environmental, and production processes of the country." In this context, the participation of the IDB aims to support efforts to ensure the availability of water resources for drinking water supply in the medium and long term, by "the development of projects for protection and conservation of springs" ... and "Design and implementation of appropriate management plans for watersheds most vulnerable and most strategically important." Most of the sources of water are in the Venezuelan mountains where coffee is grown. If we can preserve the culture of coffee under shade, preserve water resources. To prevent disasters from climate change and heavy rainfall, it is necessary to preserve the culture of coffee, and thus avoid much of the soil erosion, landslides and silting of water reservoirs. This project aims to improve the income of small coffee producers, not to deforest the forest. Also plans to introduce fruit and forest species to reforest the springs and hydraulic engineering building with bamboo is largely mitigate the impact of rainfall and thus reduce natural disasters. Indirectly, this project will help to save water resources and mitigate natural disasters directly, with the participation of the beneficiaries themselves.
The priority of Social Welfare of Venezuela, is to create stable employment opportunities for young people, especially in rural areas. To avoid the "high prevalence of risky behaviors in this age group, particularly among low-income youth, which could affect the process of capital accumulation and distribution, thus reducing the potential for economic development and overcoming poverty . Among the identified risk behaviors include teen pregnancy, school dropout and crime. " If we develop the value chain of coffee with this project, creating coffee shops owned by small farmers, youth will have sources of direct and indirect jobs.

Collaboration with Japanese Aid Agencies Does the proposed project involve collaboration with Japanese Aid Agencies (JBIC, JICA, Japanese Embassy)?

 In Biscucuy, since 2006 there is an agreement of cooperation with the Young Japanese volunteers (JICA). This agreement was brokered when I worked in the Municipality of Sucre, to begin to develop alternative to coffee for young people. Currently, there are 2 aid workers (women), working on a project of utilization of solid waste, and the other, working with an education preschool. Before them, came 4 to cooperate with the bamboo craft training, pre-school, community organization for tourism and gastronomy.