These profiles preserve the strongest material from the current community page while keeping uncertain locations and statistics visibly marked for verification.
Explore the producer organizations behind MotMot’s origin network. Select a marker to connect the community’s story, dominant notes, and recorded sensory profile.
Every story below comes from the audited website content. Language has been tightened conservatively; facts remain pending organization and business approval.
Northwestern Ecuador · exact locality pending verification
The Nor Western Union of Community Organizations and the local population of Pichincha is based in Puerto Rico. The audited profile describes a second-degree organization supporting the economic, social, and environmental development of more than 500 producers through knowledge transfer and clean technologies.
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Las Naves area · province label pending verification
APOV describes a long cacao tradition in Las Naves, including trees more than a century old. Its audited story links producer ownership after land reform with the decision to preserve fine-flavor cacao through periods when other crops were expanding.
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Esmeraldas · exact locality pending verification
The audited profile describes Afro-Ecuadorian, Manabita, Lojano, and Chachi producers working between the coast and mountains of Esmeraldas. Members share a commitment to cacao quality, transparent processes, and future product diversification.
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El Empalme, Guayas · details pending verification
The association reports growing from six members in 1995 to 112 members. Its farms are described around Buena Suerte in El Empalme, a place connected to three provinces and to the organization’s emphasis on union and a prosperous future.
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Echeandía · province details pending verification
The audited profile places CORAGRICACE in Echeandía at the foot of the Andes. Families arriving from the highlands in the late 1960s learned to grow cacao alongside coffee, oranges, and bananas in a cloud-forest environment.
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Manabí · exact valley pending verification
Fortaleza del Valle describes itself as a group of hospitable and persistent Montubio producers. Formed in 2006 through the union of La Fortaleza and Valle de Carrizal, the organization emphasizes technical development, market knowledge, and global recognition.
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Orellana and Sucumbíos · details pending verification
The audited profile says San Carlos was created to improve service, quality, and pricing for farmers in Orellana, later extending technical assistance into Sucumbíos. It describes a socio-environmental field-school approach and work with more than 1,200 farmers.
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Ecuadorian Amazon · exact locality pending verification
The group was originally known as Fight for Progress and is now commonly called Miss Ecuador. Its profile describes families arriving in the Amazon to cultivate land, moving from coffee toward cacao, and tending Nacional cacao within diversified farms.
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Northern Esmeraldas · exact locality pending verification
The audited profile places the organization in northern Esmeraldas near Colombia. It describes Chachi, Afro-Ecuadorian, and settler communities gathering cacao from farms that can be difficult to reach, using organized production to support peaceful livelihoods.
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Coastal Ecuador · exact location pending verification
FEDECADE’s audited story describes farmers who moved to the coast during the banana era and later turned to cacao. The federation’s stated purpose is to unify producers and strengthen their participation in policies covering production, distribution, quality, and commercialization.
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Central Ecuador · exact location pending verification
UCOCS describes farmers committed to the value of Nacional varieties despite pressure to replace traditional gardens with hybrids. The organization seeks markets that reward well-fermented, high-quality cacao and help members maintain integrated farms.
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Quinindé · province details pending verification
COCPE’s audited profile describes women and men organizing to improve cacao prices and family income in Quinindé. It emphasizes gender equity and reports a structure of 27 basic organizations.
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