La Red Colombiana de Productores Comunitarios Ambientalmente Amigables is a recently created network of community based smallscale producers in Colombia who try, by working together through horizontal co operation in this network, to improve their production activities and their access to national and international Green Markets. The members and beneficiaries of this initiative are Indigenous associations, afro-Colombians and peasant associations. In order to reach this objective they participate in activities of exchange of information and experiences, learning from each other. They also may receive technical/administrative support provided by the Technical Secretariat of the project located within the Colombian Non Governmental Organization Caja de Herramientas which the original financial donor of the project –the Dutch Embassy in Bogotá- selected to this end. This Secretariat will also give legal advice and provide, when opportune, financial support. The Fondo para la Acción Ambiental y la Niñez, who works with Latin American debt swap funds, bought by the US Government and canalized through USAID programmes, has given additional financial resources to the project. Caja de Herramientas has experience in facilitating the export of organic coffee produced by the Arhuaco Indigenous people of Northern Colombia. La Red has already created, within short time, its own export division, to be operated and owned in a later stage of the project, by the constituent member groups of La Red. Also The Center for the Promotion of Imports from Developing Countries (CBI) from Rotterdam has expressed its interest to cooperate with our initiatives by providing technical assistance, training and access to European markets for Colombian organic products.
