Finally, the CLAC is a gremial instance of representation, coordination, exchange and collaboration for the fortification of the organizations of cooperative type of small producers of Latin America and of the Caribbean within the framework of Fair Commerce.
The Latin American and Caribbean Coordinator of Small Producers of Fair Commerce, is a regional organism that has its first antecedents in the Latin American Coordinator of Small Coffee Producers (CLA) and in the Latin American network of small beekeepers (PAUAL) both founded in 1996.
In the case of COOPETRABASUR, it was in 1997 when it knows Fair Commerce thanks to the initiative impelled during that year by the Dutch ONG Solidarity that decides to impel a program of Fair Commerce due to the price fall of the box of banana in the European supermarkets.
COOPETRABASUR is a cooperative affiliated with the organizations mentioned above. |