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Resilient Cocoa Farming IV
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75.000 €
Liquidado por el promotor
pagos
semestral
plazo
6 meses
al año
4.75%
rating
B+
Working Capital Associates provides direct financing to value chains of agriculture products from Sub Saharan Africa (SSA) and Latin America (Latam). So far, the company has raised 850.000€ through GoParity to fund three different organizations: a coffee cooperative in Peru (Peruvian Resilient Farming I and II); a cocoa company in Peru (Resilient Cocoa Farming I, II and III); and a family-owned cocoa company in Ecuador (Ecuadorian Cocoa Farming I and II). Three out of these seven campaigns (total amount of 250.000€ lent) have successfully reached their payments plan maturity. All investors have received their full capital invested and interest.
This is the fourth campaign aimed at providing working capital to this fair trade, certified, female-owned and female-led Peruvian organization dedicated to the aggregation, processing, and selling of cocoa and its derivatives (after Resilient Cocoa Farming I, II and III). Operating with more than 3.000 local producers in the regions of Cajamarca, San Martín, Amazonas, and Huánuco, that collectively produce 55% of the total cocoa produced in Peru, for a total aggregate of 23.400 metric tons per year.
The Company is located in Tarapoto (San Martin) and concentrates 10% of the local market share, ranking as the third-largest cocoa bean marketer in Peru. Its vision is to improve the quality of life of its farming partners, offering training and technical assistance, and to be recognized by the local and international community as a high-quality supplier, developing customized products, with commitment, ethics, and trust. This vision and strategy are reinforced by several certifications, from which Fair Trade (Comércio Justo) and USDA Organic should be highlighted.
The Fair Trade Certification is particularly relevant, as it places the Company in the 13% out of the 33 million global cocoa producers that have achieved such certification which, among others, ensures that the cocoa processing and procurement are free of child slavery labour – the Fair Trade certification is particularly strict in this regard, and with yearly inspections in the sourcing farms, has no tolerance for any abusive labour practices.
Peru is the sixth-largest producer of cocoa worldwide, the second largest organic cocoa producer (after the Dominican Republic), and the number one fair-trade organic cocoa producer worldwide. The worldwide demand for cocoa is growing and especially the demand for certified cocoa is expected to continue to grow in Europe over the next years, with two clear increasing trends: search for sustainable (certified) chocolate products, i.e. cocoa bean production that complies with social, environmental and economic aspects and where the whole process is successfully certified by a third party; and towards authentic ingredients and single origin cocoa products.
Less than ten years ago, thousands of farmers used their plots in the Northern Highlands of the Selva region to grow coca - while coca provided a steady income in remote regions, the illicit crop also brought with it the violence of drug traffickers and their allies. The government was eager to eradicate it and with the collaboration of the military, police, local, regional and national governments, and initiatives from international donors and the private sector, Peruvian coca farmers were converted to cocoa (and coffee) farming and Peru has, in the last years, quickly built a global reputation for producing traditionally cultivated, shade-grown, high-quality cocoa beans.
This is the third campaign aimed at providing working capital for the same female-owned company of small cocoa producers in Peru. This is the direct impact of these campaigns:
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The funds raised through this campaign will be used as Transactional Working Capital to provide liquidity to the Organization from its procurement and processing stage, all the way through its exports.
Transactional Working Capital is a short-term debt financing asset that allows the seller to receive advance/early payments and the buyers to delay their payments. In commercial sales, standard market practice for payments is between 30 to 90 days from the time when the seller issues its invoice – such payment terms usually strain the cash availability of the seller for its own procurement, while allowing the buyer to hold on to their cash for longer. Often, the seller’s working capital gap is resolved by accessing traditional bank financing, which usually requires to be over-collateralized over hard assets (i.e. factories, buildings, machinery). However, due to the elevated requirements demanded by banks as guarantees for the loans, impossible to meet for smallholders, such bank loans seldom resolve any working capital gap.
Transactional Working Capital fills this gap without the need for collateral. That, in turn, obtains the following results for both the smallholders and the aggregator:
WCA maintains a Trade Credit Insurance Policy with a global insurance company providing worldwide trade credit insurance, surety, and collections services, with a strategic presence in 50 countries. The Project repayment will be guaranteed under such Trade Credit Insurance Policy, which effectively protects GoParity lenders from default in a credit-related event (e.g. insolvency, bankruptcy). The policy covers losses from Insolvency, Protracted Default, and Political Risk and covers up to 90% of the value of the underlying commercial transaction financed by WCA. As WCA provides up to 80% financing to any underlying commercial transaction, the policy in essence covers more than WCA’s entire financing.
This is the f fourth ampaign aimed at providing funding to this specific company, after two successful campaigns with a total amount of 450.000€. One of the campaigns has reached its payments plan maturity. All investors have received their full capital invested and interest.
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Working Capital Associates (WCA) es la única empresa – liderada por mujeres y cuya propiedad es totalmente femenina- que proporciona financiación directa a la cadena de valor de productos agrícolas en África subsahariana (SSA) y Latinoamérica (Latam).
WCA está comprometida con un enfoque de negocio profesional, ético y transparente, efectuando inversiones socialmente responsables “que permiten a los inversores abordar los criterios medioambientales, sociales y de gobernanza empresarial (ASG) mediante la inversión en soluciones específicas, como por ejemplo la energía renovable, gestión de residuos y agua, silvicultura y agricultura, productos de salud e inclusión financiera ” (PRI).
La empresa sigue dos cuestiones clave:
La empresa también aplica inversión en lentes de género, procurando financiar un nivel significativo de negocios liderados por mujeres que siguen los estándares de gestión sostenible y responsable.
El propósito de WCA es aumentar la cadena de valor proporcionando acceso a financiación a PYMES y enfocándose en tres principios clave dentro del marco de los ODS:
El equipo está compuesto por diez profesionales, gran parte del equipo miembros senior con más de 10 años de experiencia en mercados emergentes y/u operaciones financieras, y experiencia colectiva en financiación de más de 1 billón de dólares de deuda a corto plazo y transacciones comerciales de mercados emergentes:
Federica Sambiase – Founding Partner and CEO
Andrew Darling – Chief Structuring and Product Officer
Jorge Luis Cerna Coronado – Latam Origination and Relationship Management
Gathuo Njoroge - SS Africa Origination and Relationship Management
Ekaterina Kobzareva - Investments Manager
Sara Isabella Piedrabuena Designer. & Latinamerican Coverage
Gaëlle Bonnieux - Miembro de la Junta Directiva (No-Ejecutivo)
Guido Boysen - Miembro de la Junta Directiva (No-Ejecutivo)
Tineyi Mawocha se unirá al equipo como Miembro No Ejecutivo de la Junta Directiva
Puedes saber más sobre el equipo aquí.
WCA tiene su sede en Londres y está registrado desde 2017 en la FCA bajo la regulación de blanqueamiento de capitales, financiamiento terrorista y transferencia de fondos. La empresa opera mediante un modelo de empresa financiera comercial recogiendo fondos (en forma de préstamos y/o co-inversiones que provienen normalmente de fondos de impacto institucionales, Instituciones de Desarrollo Financiero (DFIs), y patrimonios privados) y después prestándolos a proyectos en países emergentes. Los ingresos de la empresa provienen del margen de interés neto entre el interés de los prestatarios y el interés pagado por los prestamistas.
El público objetivo de la empresa engloba 2 millones de PYMES con limitaciones financieras (#1.6 millones en África y #0.4 millones en Latam). Concretamente, la empresa tiene como mercado objetivo Perú, Costa Rica, Colombia, Ecuador, Kenia, Ruanda, Tanzania y Etiopia, y preferentemente en la cadena de valor del sector alimentario.
La empresa ha adaptado sus servicios para las PYMES, las más vulnerables a las exigencias de financiamiento transaccional – aproximadamente el 58% de las propuestas de transacciones financieras son rechazadas por los bancos, a pesar de que a nivel global este sector presenta el 44% de todas las propuestas de transacción financiera-. Los bancos rechazan gran parte de las propuestas por tres principales razones: los reguladores imponen requisitos muy engorrosos de AML (prevención blanqueo de capital) y KYC (conocimiento del cliente), requisitos de capital para financiamiento a corto plazo inviables o poco rentables para empresas con baja calificación y limitación de capital bancario.
WCA sigue sus propios principios de inversión responsable basado en los 10 Principios del Pacto Mundial de la ONU.
Activo desde
2018
Pais fiscal
GB
Operando en
Latin America and Sub Saharan Africa
Industria
Investment
Número de préstamos Goparity
23
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2022-03-29
El primer pago se pagó a todos los inversores
2021-09-29
432 inversores recaudaron con éxito 75.000€
2021-09-29
El día 29/09/2021, el promotor decidió reducir el monto de la campaña para 75.000€.
2021-09-22
Esta campaña está abierta a la inversión