Posted by Kyle Sweeney  |  December 19, 2023

Mountains near the Pula Lenca Cooperative in Marcala, Honduras, November 2023. Credit: Dylan Butler/Root Capital. As we near the end of 2023, we will say farewell to the warmest year on record-a year where our clients and their communities faced ever-more-urgent climate threats, like hail storms knocking coffee cherries off trees in Rwanda and heavy rains in…

Topics: Environment |

Posted by Kelly Acheson  |  December 7, 2023

Caption: A Flor de Café cooperative member tends to coffee on a drying patio. Photo credit: Root Capital Cooperativa de Servicios Múltiples Flor de Café R.L. (“Flor de Café”), a coffee cooperative in Murra, Nueva Segovia, Nicaragua, is accustomed to the powerful tropical storms, flooding, and landslides that accompany hurricane season each year. As climate change intensifies,…

Topics: Stories of Impact |

Posted by Peter Onguka  |  November 30, 2023

Superfine Africa Nuts employees sort macadamia nuts by hand alongside Root Capital’s Leonor Gutiérrez, Director of the Women in Agriculture Initiative, and CEO and Founder, Willy Foote. Photo credit: Root Capital In September, I, along with my Root Capital colleagues Leonor Gutiérrez, Martin Buyeka, Willy Foote, and Rose Ochieng, had a chance to visit our Kenyan client Superfine Africa Nuts.

Topics: Environment | Stories of Impact |

Posted by Juan Taborda  |  November 20, 2023

View overlooking Tenejapa Municipality in Chiapas, where Root Capital client Kulaktik is based. Credit: Root Capital Coffee farms dot the landscape in Mexico’s southernmost state of Chiapas. But coffee production is much more than a key characteristic of the physical landscape in Chiapas-it is also deeply woven into the cultural and economic fabric of the region. Coffee production accounts for…

Topics: Partnerships | Stories of Impact |

Posted by Gian Fabbri  |  November 15, 2023

Members of the Asociación Chajulense V’al Vaq Quyol in Northern Quiché, Guatemala. Credit: Root Capital. Over the course of our (nearly) 25 year history, Root Capital has pioneered a blended finance model, working to shift the paradigm of agricultural finance through social entrepreneurship and creative thinking. Our blended finance approach helps us to generate outsized impact by bringing together a…

Topics: Access to Finance |

Posted by Tess Fisher  |  October 28, 2023

Root Capital’s Junior Loan Officer Brayam Quilca Román with cooperative members at the COAS cacao cooperative in Pangoa, Peru. Credit: Root Capital In recognition of National Chocolate Day, celebrated in the U.S. on October 28, we are sharing the story of Cooperativa Agraria Sonomoro Del Vraem Ltda (COAS), a Peruvian cacao cooperative that produces and exports a wide variety of…

Topics: Stories of Impact | Women in Agriculture |

Posted by Tess Fisher  |  October 27, 2023

Root Capital staff are joined by the founding members of the Women’s Council at the Nairobi, Kenya Root Capital office in September 2023. Credit for all photos used in this blog: Root Capital. In September, Root Capital held a two-day convening in our Nairobi, Kenya office to hear firsthand from five women leaders in agriculture. These invaluable perspectives inform our …

Topics: Women in Agriculture |

Posted by Leonor Gutiérrez  |  October 26, 2023

Women members of Koperative Abahuzamugambi Ba Kawa (Maraba), a coffee cooperative in Huye District, Rwanda. Photo credit: Adam Finch Women and girls bear the brunt of several critical challenges of our time, from climate change to access to finance to an inequitable share of domestic responsibilities. The hurdles faced by rural women in emerging markets where Root Capital operates are…

Topics: Women in Agriculture |

Posted by Kelly Acheson  |  September 26, 2023

Marcelline Budza at Root Capital’s Women’s Council gathering in Nairobi, Kenya. Credit: Root Capital In the lead up to International Coffee Day on October 1, we are sharing Rebuild Women’s Hope’s (RWH) story. Keep reading to learn more about this unique coffee cooperative that is on a mission to empower women in the Democratic Republic of the…

Topics: Africa | Women in Agriculture |

Posted by Elizabeth Teague  |  September 25, 2023

CENFROCAFE producer member Anselmo Díaz on his coffee farm. Rumi Bamba, Las Pirias, Jaen, Cajamarca, Peru. October 8, 2022. Credit: James Rodriguez. Root Capital is pleased to share a new report showing the potential of environmental payments to reward farmers for their use of carbon-friendly, agroforestry practices. This report is the result of three years of collaboration…

Topics: Environment | Partnerships |