About Us

Strategic positioning of small and medium rural enterprises in farm ecoproductive chains depends mainly on their posibilities to obtain and use in good timing the market intelligence (info resources). EcoNegocios Agrícolas aims to inprove the competitiveness of Latin American SME, through a wider access to market information. In EcoNegocios Agrícolas the enterprises will have access to services and tools for the development of their business.:

» Virtual fair and on line business
» Contact diversification with international buyers
» Service suppliers identification
» Access to new financing sources
» Strategic plan and business plan alignment
» Certificatoin process optimization
» Ecoproducts export preparation
» Bilingüal, to bind Latin American ecoproducts offerers with buyers from the EU, USA, Japan and other countries

EcoNegocios Agrícolas is an effort by Centro para la Competitividad de Ecoempresas (CeCoEco) of CATIE, along with several associates, as BID-FOMIN (ITC4BUS) and Instituto para la Conectividad en las Américas (ICA). the CeCoEco aims to help the ecoenterprises of small producers in special agricultural and forest markets. The interdisciplinary CeCoEco team offers technical advice, research and capacitation services, related to enterprise organization and opportunity identification, to improve value of raw material and political and legal background analysis. Our services are offered to ONG representatives, state agencies and projects, to achieve a more oportune corporative service offering.

We offer also our system of forestal area market inteligence: EcoNegocios Forestales (www.catie.ac.cr/econegociosforestales). This service includes interactive elements, such as on line affairs with forest ecoproduct market information, as well as a wide range of methodologies and tools for the forest corporative development.

For more information about EcoNecocios Agrícolas, plase contact the following representatives:

Dietmar Stoian, Ph.D.
Economista Forestal
(+506) 2558-2543
stoian@catie.ac.cr  

Thelma Gaitán, Lic.
Especialista en TIC para Eco-PyMEs
(+506) 2558-2218
tgaitan@catie.ac.cr