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    The MOCCA Program is a five-year USDA-funded initiative that will help over 750,000 smallholder coffee and cacao farmers in six countries overcome barriers limiting their ability to rehabilitate and renovate crops. This will increase productivity, marketing capacity, incomes, and livelihoods within these value chains. Old, unproductive trees and diseases are negatively impacting production quality and forcing some farmers to abandon crops. Rehabilitation and renovation can counteract these challenges and ensure sustainability without expanding agriculture into forests. However, most farmers currently cannot effectively renovate due to limitations including price risk, technical skills, capital access, and reliable planting materials.

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    The MOCCA Program is a five-year USDA-funded initiative that will help over 750,000 smallholder coffee and cacao farmers in six countries overcome barriers limiting their ability to rehabilitate and renovate crops. This will increase productivity, marketing capacity, incomes, and livelihoods within these value chains. Old, unproductive trees and diseases are negatively impacting production quality and forcing some farmers to abandon crops. Rehabilitation and renovation can counteract these challenges and ensure sustainability without expanding agriculture into forests. However, most farmers currently cannot effectively renovate due to limitations including price risk, technical skills, capital access, and reliable planting materials.

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    The MOCCA Program is a five-year USDA-funded initiative that will help over 750,000 smallholder coffee and cacao farmers in six countries overcome barriers limiting their ability to rehabilitate and renovate crops. This will increase productivity, marketing capacity, incomes, and livelihoods within these value chains. Old, unproductive trees and diseases are negatively impacting production quality and forcing some farmers to abandon crops. Rehabilitation and renovation can counteract these challenges and ensure sustainability without expanding agriculture into forests. However, most farmers currently cannot effectively renovate due to limitations including price risk, technical skills, capital access, and reliable planting materials.

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    The MOCCA Program is a five-year USDA-funded initiative that will help over 750,000 smallholder coffee and cacao farmers in six countries overcome barriers limiting their ability to rehabilitate and renovate crops. This will increase productivity, marketing capacity, incomes, and livelihoods within these value chains. Old, unproductive trees and diseases are negatively impacting production quality and forcing some farmers to abandon crops. Rehabilitation and renovation can counteract these challenges and ensure sustainability without expanding agriculture into forests. However, most farmers currently cannot effectively renovate due to limitations including price risk, technical skills, capital access, and reliable planting materials.

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    Maximizing Opportunities for Coffee and Cacao in the Americas

    The MOCCA Program is a five-year initiative funded by the United States Department of
    Agriculture (USDA´s) Food for Progress Program. Implemented in six countries where
    more than 750,000 smallholder farmers produce coffee and cacao, MOCCA will help
    farmers to overcome the barriers that limit their capacity to effectively rehabilitate and
    renovate their coffee and cacao plants – increasing their productivity, while improving
    their marketing capacity, incomes, and livelihoods within these key value chains.

    CONTEXT
    Across Central America and the Andean Region, old
    and unproductive trees, diseases, and changing
    climatic patterns are adversely impacting the
    production of quality coffee and cacao, and forcing
    some farmers to abandon the crops, if not their
    entire farms. Rehabilitation and Renovation (R&R)
    can represent practical solutions to counteract
    these chronic challenges and are vital to ensuring
    the longevity of these sectors without expanding
    their footprints into fragile forest ecosystems.
    However, at present, most farmers are not
    renovating and rehabilitating their coffee and cacao
    plots, or are unable to do so in a way that
    maximizes their outcomes.

    MOCCA Geographies THEORY OF CHANGE


    Smallholder farmer profits from coffee and cacao
    production are declining due to a lack of farm-level
    investment in R&R and maintenance, limitations that are
    driven by price risk in addition to insufficient technical
    capacity, access to capital, and access to reliable genetic
    material for planting. The MOCCA program seeks to
    address these challenges.
    MOCCA´s design is based on our theory of change, which is that if
    farmers understand the benefits of R&R, possess the knowledge
    and skills to conduct R&R, have access to high-quality inputs and
    affordable financing, and participate in higher-value trading
    models, then they will carry out low-cost rehabilitation practices
    that will increase their profitability and catalyze a cycle of R&R
    investments. In turn, these investments will lead to a more secure
    and sustainable supply of coffee and cacao for U.S. and other
    regional and international markets.

    mocca.org
    MOCCA Activities

    Farmer Training

    Build buyer-seller relationships

    Augment research and dissemination

    Strengthen suppliers of genetic material


    for planting

    Facilitate access to finance

    Support trade association service


    provision

    Bolster platforms

    MOCCA PARTNERS

    OUR CONSORTIUM Consortium Leader Cacao Lead


    TechnoServe will oversee all MOCCA activities and lead in
    coffee value chain efforts. Lutheran World Relief (LWR) will
    lead cacao value chain efforts, with Rikolto implementing
    MOCCA cacao activities in Ecuador. Conservation Interna-
    tional´s Sustainable Coffee Challenge (SCC) will lead in the
    creation of an R&R fund. Initiatives for Smallholder Finance
    (ISF) will design and implement MOCCA´s access-to-finance Other MOCCA Partners
    strategy for both coffee and cacao. World Coffee Research
    (WCR) and Bioversity will spearhead efforts to augment and
    sustain coffee and cacao research benefiting these value
    chains.

    WHAT WILL MOCCA DO?


    MOCCA will implement a set of activities that provide market-
    based solutions to overcome the root causes that prevent
    farmers from carrying out widespread R&R efforts.

    MOCCA TARGETS
     Benefit more than 120,000 coffee and cacao farmers, and WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT!
    1,230 organizations
    MOCCA will not reach its targets without
     Integrate over 40,000 farmers into higher-value trading
    collaboration from coffee and cacao market system
    models
    actors including buyers, trade associations, producer
     Support more than 950 nurseries and clonal gardens to organizations, research institutions, lenders,
    supply high-quality genetic material for planting government offices, donors, and fellow project
     Facilitate over $64 million in loans to more than 29,000 implementers.
    farmers If you are interested in collaborating with us, please
     Increase productivity by 33 percent contact mocca@tns.org.

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