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Coffee Companies
The following coffee companies have or are currently purchasing Café Solar® solar-dried coffee from our partnering coffee cooperatives that have invested in renewable energy technology.

• Equal Exchange Coffee and Tea (Canton, Massachusetts)
• Inter-American Coffee (California)
• Commonwealth Coffee Company (Franklin, Massachusetts (508-553-8880)
• Thanksgiving Coffee (California)

Essential Oil Companies
The following essential oil companies have or are currently purchasing forest essential oils from partnering cooperatives that are sustainably extracting and processing oils from mixed productive forest systems.

• The Essential Oil Company (Portland, Oregon)
   

Partner Organizations
Our project partner in Nicaragua, the Campesino a Campesino Program (PCAC), is a horizontal technical assistance and training program with extensive field experience working with campesinos throughout most of the country, with 2,000 trained community extentionists and 80 regional and local offices. PCAC assists the campesino to become more productive and to implement sustainable farming practices. They have successfully introduced programs of integrated pest management and productive shade management for coffee farmers, coffee pulp to fertilizer programs, organic farming techniques, sesame seed production, as well as animal husbandry programs: inoculation, artificial insemination, etc. The program assists and promotes campesinos to become field researchers and trainers for their communities. Campesino a Campesino receives financial assistance largely from the European Economic Community and technical support from the European NGOs including Oxfam UK.

Oikocredit The Ecumenical Cooperative Development Society based in the Netherlands is partnering with MDI to provide financing for cooperatives that wish to adopt the drying technology through lease or purchase.