The Chiapas Region of Mexico is one of the best places in the world to grow coffee. The area is teeming in natural resources and produces 35% of Mexico’s coffee, which traditionally has been the state’s primary cash crop. However, the production of bananas, cacao and corn has also made the area Mexico’s second largest agricultural producer overall.

A Resourceful Land
When our culinary team visited the tropical, high-altitude mountains of the Chiapas Region of Southern Mexico, they were impressed by its flowing water and radiant sunlight. Teeming with natural reserves, the region’s plant life swells and its forests stretch high and wide. Its soil, vital to the production of excellent coffee, is as rich as its wealth of resources. And yet despite the land’s endowments and the hard labor of its people, its local coffee farming communities are locked in a struggle against poverty; a fact our culinary team witnessed first hand. Coco’s could not ignore their plight. The native people of the Chiapas region, a place ripe with the opportunity for change, were the perfect partners for the Coco's Organic Premium Coffee Program.