APEC: Growing Indigenous Businesses Through Trade 2024 Peruvian Participant Profiles

Australia strengthens bond with Peruvian Indigenous communities.

The two-day workshop in Lima brought together Indigenous businesses from various regions of Peru representing products such as coffee, nuts, cacao, and chocolate products, traditional clothing, bags, and jewellery, and personal care products. Many of the participants were women entrepreneurs.

We thank the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade for funding this project under the auspices of APEC – Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation and for the invaluable support received from Peru’s Ministry of Foreign Trade and Tourism (MINCETUR).

We look forward to future commercial collaboration between Australian and Peruvian Indigenous businesses, including our participants.

Click on the names of the entrepreneurs to find out more about their businesses

Cooperativa Agraria Yakatheo Del Amazonas

Bresniev Manuel Arias Tocto

Dry and fermented cocoa beans, placenta and cocoa powder mix, cup chocolates and 70% bitters.

Caroye Foods Sac

Rosaura Laura Vila

Chocolates made with pure premium cocoa flavours that we have selected from our nueva esperanza family farm and sell under the juan laura-the chocolate farmer brand

Company

Doris Gómez Agustín

Shipibas Handicrafts. Embroidery, cloaks, necklaces and bracelets

Menin Aimbo E.I.R.L

Guirda Karina Pacaya Cruz

Art of Shipibo culture such as bracelets, necklaces, earrings, costume jewelry in general with kene design as well as I also do general service of Shipibo handicraft products

Empresa De Turismo Y Cultura Yanesha Sac

Eliseo Miguel Lopez

Ecotourism and Crafts

Cooperativa Agraria Industrial Apasc Sancore Palcazu Ltda

Miriam Madeleine Sanchez Ramirez

We work on the cultivation of environmentally friendly cocoa. We also produce 100% cocoa paste, chocolates in various flavors, dragees, jams, jelly with cocoa juice.

Jomatex Srl.

Maritza Pacori Calloapaza

Clothing for women, men and children, home deco handmade with sustainable fibers

Empresa Indígena Nii Biri Maravillas Del Bosque Srl

Marina Gisella Pérez Rosas

High value-added wood products from certified forests from our native partner communities

Koshi Kené

Sadith Esther Silvano Inuma

We create garments, jewelry and textiles, conveying a clear message with our art of painting and embroidery, a family tradition for generations. We seek to share our craftsmanship while committing to a sustainable future in fashion, handcrafting all our products with love and respect for the environment.

Cooperativa Agraria De Productores Ashaninkas Kemito-Ene Ltda

Mauro Roque Zuniga Moscoso

Cacao in grain, Cocoa paste, Cocoa butter, NIPS, and Cocoa powder

Chamber of Commerce of Indigenous Peoples

Zoila Gloria Merino Roque

Crafts with chambira vegetable fibre

Cooperativa Agraria Ashaninka Kemito Sankori Ldta

Ada Cecilia Julcarima Caysahuana

Processing of cocoa and coffee derivatives

Cooperativa Agraria Ashaninka Kemito Sankori Ltda

Percy Camacho Santos

Production of chocolates derived from cocoa beans and coffee.

Omegalife E.I.R.L

Yolanda Anccasi Taype

A nut-producing company in the Cañete Valley, led by women

Asociación De Productores Cafetaleros Selva Central – APROSELVA

Raquel Condori Vivanco

Coffee

Cooperativa Indígena Awajun Wampis Agraria Tuntanain Ltda (Copindi)

Jacinto Wamputsar Anguash

Cocoa is a direct product of the partner communities of the Tuntanain Communal Reserve which have the Conservation Agreements (ACODES), being an alternative to generate economic income for families.

Asociacion Mujeres Agrarias Cacaoteras C.N Koribeni

Ubaldina Korirnti Gonzalez

Sale of cocoa chocolate paste and Machiguenga handicrafts

Asociación De Mujeres Empresarias Ashaninkas Iroperanto Koya

Judith Blanca Reymundo Ruiz

We have products from the Amazon, we take advantage of the resources of the Amazon forest in a sustainable and sustainable way. Copaiba, Sangre de Grado, Copaiba, cat’s claw bark, chuchuhuasi. Banana flours, kion, turmeric, and other Amazonian tubers.

Cooperativa Agrobosque

Doris Milagros Fuentes Holanda

We work with the cultivation of cocoa in agroforestry systems, the same that we give added value and we produce and market cocoa derivatives.

Evand’s

Evelyn Virginia Ramos Castellanos

Preparation of food, beverages and chocolates to prevent and combat anemia in babies and children in school and children.

Cooperativa Agraria Achuar Shakaim Ltda

José Alarcón Ignasio

Sale of non-timber forest products, such as oils from Amazonian palm trees

Asociacion Forestal Indigena Madre De Dios – AFIMAD

Martín Hipolito Huaypuna Flores

Super Chestnut Fruits and Derivatives

Network of female entrepreneurs of the regional Amazon community BERU

Ledy Guadalupe Vela Ramirez

Food products

2024 APEC GRIT PERU