Beyco: Beyond Coffee and connections

Isabel van Bemmelen, Managing  Director of Beyco and the Progreso Foundation, shared with us some insights about Beyco (Beyond coffee), a coffee trading platform launched in 2018, and its contribution to the traceability within the overall coffee value chain. Isabel started our conversation by explaining the idea behind Beyco and telling us how the trading platform came into being. With her many years of experience in working in financing the coffee industry, she saw producer organizations’s needs for both access to market and access to finance.