SUCAFINA HOLDING S.A.
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Who is our customer
Sucafina is a multinational coffee merchant, founded in 1977 and based in Geneva, Switzerland. The company is active across the coffee value chain ranging from farming to roasting and has the vision to be the Leading sustainable farm to roaster coffee company in the world” by 2025.
What is our funding objective?
The USD 17mln facility will support Sucafina’s origination operations in Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania, Kenya and Colombia. With FMO’s funds Sucafina will invest in new washing stations, coffee mills and warehouses as well as refinance its existing fixed assets in these countries.
Why do we fund this investment?
With this facility, Sucafina will be able to further expand its origination activities in Africa and providing direct support to smallholder farmers. Through the Farmer Hub initiative, the company wants to increase the number of smallholder farmers reached in East Africa from ~45,000 to ~170,000 over the next five years and assist them with growing speciality coffees, diversifying into other crops and access to banking services and markets. FMO is closely supporting the Farmer Hub initiative through its capacity development program.
What is the Environmental and Social categorization rationale?
The E&S category is B+ (not changed since previous investment), due to largely reversible impacts, which can be mitigated through good management practices and Good International Industry Practice. Relevant IFC PS are 1 thru 4. The Company's assets are mainly primary processing units, warehouses and washing stations. PS 5 is not relevant since there is no ownership of farms and/or acquisition of large tracts of land. PS6 is not relevant because operations are not in or near HCV areas or Ramsar sites. The same applies to PS 7 and 8.
More investments
| Date | Total FMO financing |
|---|---|
| 11/7/2022 | EUR 0.03 MLN |
| 9/3/2020 | EUR 0.10 MLN |
| 12/19/2019 | EUR 0.18 MLN |
| 8/24/2022 | EUR 0.06 MLN |
| 4/21/2022 | EUR 0.23 MLN |
| 3/2/2022 | USD 10.00 MLN |
- Country
- Global
- Sector
- Agribusiness, Food & Water
- Publication date
- 4/29/2020
- Effective date
- 7/10/2020
- Total FMO financing
- USD 17.00 MLN
- Funding
- FMO NV
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Risk categorization on environmental and social impacts, A = high risk, B+ = medium high risk, B = medium risk, C = low risk
Environmental & Social Category
(A, B+, B or C) - B+