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Manufacturing as a Tool for Conservation – COMACO – Community Markets for Conservation

Manufacturing as a Tool for Conservation

Our Work

 We supply over 8,000 tons (and increasing) of nutritious food products to Zambia’s cities and towns each year, under the brand It’s Wild!. Profits from It’s Wild! sales are filtered back into the communities through dividend sharing and COMACO guarantees premium prices if conservation standards are met. CLICK HERE FOR STATISTICS ON OUR INFRASTRUCTURE

What We Do

COMACO Causes

Energy

In partnership with CQuest, COMACO has distributed 97,463 fuel-efficient cookstoves that are monitored annually for their use and maintenance.

Women’s Empowerment

52% of COMACO farmers and half of all cooperative leaders are women, figures that would have been unimaginable twenty years ago.

Manufacturing as a Tool for Conservation

We supply over 8,000 tons of nutritious food products to Zambia’s cities and towns annually under the brand It’s Wild!.

Carbon Project

We worked with local chiefs to establish Community Conservation Areas designed to safeguard Zambia’s forests and the wildlife within them.

Cooperatives

We helped establish 103 community-run cooperatives in 84 chiefdoms across Eastern, Central and Muchinga Provinces of Zambia.

Transformed Poachers

COMACO started operating in Luangwa Valley with a mission to help wildlife poachers learn new skills to fulfil their livelihoods and protect wildlife.

Agroforestry

In the 2020/2021 season, we partnered with 72,000 farmers in Eastern and Muchinga provinces to plant over 46 million Gliricidia Sepium trees.

Beekeeping

We work with over 7,000 farmers in the Luangwa Valley not only to protect landscapes and forests, but also to improve household nutrition and income.

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