Costa Esmeraldas is a family-owned 100-hectare cacao farm close to the coast in the rural Province of Esmeraldas in Northern Ecuador, a non-traditional cacao growing area.
Ucayali River Cacao is a company that buys wet beans from farmers in the Pucallpa and Tingo Maria regions of Peru. Farmers are paid higher than market price for their fresh beans, and cacao is fermented in a central processing facility.
Latitude Trade Company Ltd is a Ugandan registered social enterprise owned and managed by Jeff Steinberg. Jeff moved to Western Uganda to help build the quality of agriculture products in the region in an effort to re-define the origin reputation and increase smallholder farm incomes.