Chiapas, Mexico, is known for delicious specialty coffee and is responsible for 30-40 percent of Mexico’s coffee production. In Chiapas, nearly a quarter of the workforce earns their livelihood from the coffee industry, and many of those people are smallholder farmers. Compared with business owners in more urban areas of Mexico, these farmers have few options to securely store and manage their money. As a result, farmers often rely on cash-only middlemen that siphon a significant percentage of farmers’ earnings to bring their products to market. Relying on cash-only systems also exposes farmers to greater risk of theft, reduces farmer access to better pricing for their products as well as to financial products and services that can make their businesses more stable and resilient. In December 2018, Mastercard partnered with Fundación Capital and the Neumann Kaffee Gruppe, the world’s largest coffee trading house, to digitize payments and increase financial inclusion and transparency in the Neumann Kaffee Gruppe’s supply chain through a pilot program called Cafe Paga.