Producer
organisations

The producer organisations are the protagonists of Comparte, represented by individuals who have organised themselves to confront the situation of exclusion and poverty in which they live, aiming to achieve good living conditions for themselves and their communities. Therefore, the actions of the social centres and the network seek to improve these organisations and their economic-productive initiatives.

In Comparte, we understand a producer organisation as any locally organised group, supported by a Social Centre within the network, that develops an economic-productive initiative in one or more phases of the complete economic cycle. They may have legal personality (such as cooperatives, social enterprises, etc.) or not (such as associations of producer families, organised groups, etc.). There is a wide range of economic-productive initiatives that reach over 50,000 families. Of these, 79% are from rural populations (mostly indigenous), and 21% are from urban or semi-urban areas.

These initiatives represent a great diversity of organisational models: cooperatives, associations, social enterprises, or small organised groups, with varying sizes ranging from 13 producer families to 67 rural communities. They also encompass different value chains: agricultural (coffee, cacao, sesame, peach, heirloom maize, oyster mushrooms), livestock (guinea pigs, small poultry, dairy), diversified agro-industrial, manufactured products (textiles, footwear, soap, and crafts), and services (hospitality, rural tourism, microcredits).