THE CACAO
PROGRAM
Our dissidence is about location. While conventional models ship cacao away to be processed in distant facilities, we are committed to closing the full bean-to-bar cycle within the community itself — where the cacao was grown, tended and harvested.
FROM BEAN TO BAR, IN THE HEART OF THE RAINFOREST
Cacao is not just a crop — it is a living heritage of the Mesoamerican territory.
Our purpose is to reverse the historical logic of extraction and build a model of productive sovereignty through the Community Chocolaterie.
Our story with cacao begins in indigenous territory. In communities like Yorkin, in the heart of Bribri land, families had spent years selling their cacao in baba — raw, unprocessed, at prices that bore no relation to the work, the knowledge or the culture behind every pod. We couldn’t look away. So we began — slowly, deliberately — building a process of technification that gives families the tools to own every stage: fermentation, drying, roasting and cacao butter extraction.
TOWARD A MOBILE CHOCOLATERIE
Our vision breaks through geographic barriers. We are working to implement a Mobile Chocolaterie — a travelling processing unit designed to reach the most isolated territories. This innovation will bring the technology directly to the communities that need it most, allowing even the most remote families to transform their own harvest into finished chocolate — democratizing access to added value, one territory at a time.
OUR IMPACT
Customer satisfaction
New products
Families benefited
240%
Growth
OUR PROCESS
