Our Story

Mr. Emilio takes its name from the legendary Mexican war hero Emiliano Zapata, who fought for the right of small farmers to own farm land.  Our story goes back to 2014, after one of our founders had an unpleasant food distribution experience with corn husks on the Arizona border where the whole load was lost.  Being a seasoned entrepreneur, the experience made him realize that small and poorly educated farmers don’t stand a chance in the tough cannibalistic credit demanding-markets.  Since 2020, our mission has become to help small food producers get access to better paying markets, so they can prosper.  There are over 500 million of these small food producers around the globe remaining in poverty, with hardly any opportunity to get ahead.  As you probably figured, Mr. Emilio’s journey is quite long;-) Even more, our team knows that we need to be  somewhat crazy to pursuit such an audacious goal.  In full disclosure, being crazy or not, we are already two years into this journey and as we see it there is no turning back…