Cooxupé (Cooperativa Regional de Cafeicultores em Guaxupé) is the largest coffee cooperative in the world and a central pillar of Brazil’s Arabica sector. It was originally founded in 1932 as an agricultural credit cooperative by a small group of farmers in Guaxupé, Minas Gerais, and formally transitioned into a coffee-focused cooperative in 1957. Today, Cooxupé has around 17,000–18,000 members, the vast majority of whom are smallholder, family-run farms spread across southern Minas Gerais, the Cerrado Mineiro, and parts of São Paulo state. The cooperative operates an extensive infrastructure network that includes receiving stations, warehouses, and large industrial milling and preparation plants, mainly concentrated in Minas Gerais (notably around Guaxupé), where millions of bags are processed annually to ensure export quality. Cooxupé’s main role is to centralize services that individual farmers could not efficiently access alone. It provides technical assistance, agronomic training, access to credit, inputs, and quality control systems, as well as storage, milling, and global marketing channels. By pooling production, farmers benefit from economies of scale, stronger bargaining power, and direct access to international buyers, with exports reaching dozens of countries. Overall, the cooperative significantly improves farmers’ income stability, promotes sustainability programs, and enables small producers to participate competitively in the global coffee market.