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A word from Hugo Couderé, founder of Alterfin, on what we leave behind.

If Alterfin were a wall built by thousands of cooperative members, each sharing a brick, the Alterfin Guarantee Fund would be the mortar between the bricks. It's essential to keeping the wall standing firm. Today, the AGF is evolving into the Alterfin Impact+ Program.

Greening urban spaces is a gesture for the future — much like buying Alterfin shares for a loved one, transferring shares to them, or donating shares to the Alterfin Impact+ Program. So why not do both at once? From September 2026, Alterfin is launching a tree-planting campaign in collaboration with the SOWoods project.

What actually happens to your Alterfin shares when you're no longer here? And how do you best approach your estate planning? To mark International Wills Day (13 September), notary Valérie Weyts answers a number of essential questions on a topic that remains genuinely difficult to broach. One thing is certain: this concerns everyone, because every major decision we make in life can have consequences for the future.

Coffee farming in northern Peru comes with its share of challenges - price swings, crop quality risk, and uneven cash flow – yet it also holds real potential for growers who can count on stable income and support.

At Alterfin’s 2026 General Assembly, we brought together a panel to explore this question: Lore Vandewalle, Professor at KU Leuven; Simon Ziba and Josh Olson from VisionFund, an Alterfin partner; and Caterina Giordano, Chief Impact Officer at Alterfin.

An open letter from Armand Kouassi, Director of the CPR Canaan cooperative, a member of our partner Ecookim.

This year, Alterfin is joining forces with Oxfam to support the Bite to Fight project. Launched in 2018, the initiative aims to help 100 cocoa farmers from the CPR Canaan cooperative (a member of our partner Ecookim) achieve a living income. Oxfam hopes the project can serve as a model for the wider cocoa sector.

EBO SACCO, a savings and credit cooperative in Uganda, has grown significantly over the past two years. This growth is the result of a long trajectory supported by several organisations, including the Belgian organisations BRS and Trias. Alterfin then played a catalytic role in this growth story: by strengthening EBO SACCO’s credibility at the right moment, we helped the cooperative attract other investors and ultimately increase its impact. This is confirmed by our impact study, a tool we specifically developed to measure the added value we bring to our partners.