Innovation for Smallholder
Farmers in Latin America
Digital Solutions for Superior Coffee Drying
Company Background
Colcafé is a leading Colombian coffee processor committed to transforming farms into Sustainable Coffee Enterprises. Backed by Grupo Nutresa, Colcafé blends traditional expertise with digital innovation to enhance post-harvest quality and farmer livelihoods. Under this initiative it’s piloting digital tools for enhanced drying processes in the Farallones del Citará region.
Our Product
Colcafé is developing a mobile app and data infrastructure to support technical assistance to farmers around best practices for parchment coffee drying. The app provides real-time guidance, while the pilot includes a tech-enabled, modular drying device aimed at ensuring consistent quality of coffee drying.
Under this agtech project, Colcafé aims to:
- Survey drying practices in Farallones del Citará
- Build data systems for insights and advisory at scale (1,000+ SHFs)
- Launch the drying-assistance mobile app
- Pilot a drying device alongside the app with 50 smallholder farmers
- Train farmers on the use of app and the new drying device
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This project is supported by Incofin IM and Incofin Foundation co-funded by IDB Lab and SSNUP.
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This Project is financed under the project “Innovation in Ag Tech and Digital Agriculture for Small Farmers” funded by the Inter-American Development Bank, as administrator of the Multilateral Investment Fund (IDB Lab)”. This Project is also financed under the Smallholder Sustainability Upscaling Programme (“SSNUP”) funded by the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs of Luxembourg, the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (“SDC”) and the Liechtenstein Development Service (“LED”) and is coordinated by Appui au développement autonome a.s.b.l. (“ADA”)”.
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