Yachana Gourmet is an ecologically conscious, socially progressive company designed to purchase agricultural commodities grown in the rain forest, add value to these products in the jungle, and open international markets. Yachana Gourmet produces a unique chocolate product, known as Yachana Jungle Chocolate, for export to the world.

Yachana Gourmet believes the future of the rainforest is inextricably linked to the wellbeing of its inhabitants. Poverty and its causes inevitably lead to environmental degradation. In an effort to alleviate poverty and protect the rainforest, Yachana Gourmet supports Fair Trade practices and buys directly from rural producer cooperatives and family farmers cultivating cacao that is shade grown in the delicate rainforest of the Ecuadorian Amazon.

Yachana Gourmet has created a fair market where none previously existed. For local farmers, these favorable terms of trade have strengthened the case for viable economic alternatives to unsustainable land uses, such as unregulated logging, cattle ranching, and the cultivation of illicit crops.

Your purchase of Jungle Chocolate helps Yachana Gourmet:

• Increase small producers' incomes by cutting out exploitative middlemen and paying Fair Trade prices;
• Offer a secure and stable market on which local subsistence farmers can depend;
• Provide technical assistance to enhance local productivity and competitiveness; and
• Support FUNEDESIN's rainforest conservation and sustainable development projects.

Yachana Gourmet is enhancing the region's long-term ability to succeed economically while protecting its natural resources.