Bolivia

APROMAM is a business in the Mizque region, south-east of Cochabamba, where the peanut industry is an important source of income for the survival of its small communities. The enterprise, set up by the Association of Mizque Peanut Producers (APROMAM), produces and markets the organic peanuts of local farmers, offering them better prices, as well as resources and technical assistance. Their products are sold to public schools in Bolivia, in line with the School Food Law, and exported to an organic company located in Germany. The business now supports 110 farmers and there families, three times as many since they started working with the programme.

Maria Rosa Chuquimia founded “El Huerto” in 2014 in order to respond to a a demand for seeds and vegetable seedlings in the Andean zone of Bolivia. The business provides its small local farmers with better quality resources than those on the market. She also offers support in the form of training, technical advice, plant clinics and demonstration gardens. The business encourages job creation especially for women. It improves farmers' knowledge of good production practices that are more environmentally friendly. El Huerto now provides jobs for 143 people, works with over 200 farmers of which 55% are women.

Valleverde is a company located in La Paz that markets fresh and processed vegetables produced in greenhouses by peasant families. The highlands of the Pacenis an area with high poverty rates and where family farming is an important source of income for the subsistence of small communities. The company offers technical assistance, access to micro-credits and better prices to more than 70 small local farmers, 60% of whom are women. With the support of Oxfam Intermon, an equality plan will be developed that will allow women to become more involved in the management of the company, to have better working conditions and to foster their leadership.