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Our Work – COMACO – Community Markets for Conservation

Our Work

Energy
Energy

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

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Women
Women’s Empowerment

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

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Manufacturing
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!.

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Environment
Carbon Project

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

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Conservation Farming
Cooperatives

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

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“86 transformed poachers supported by farmer cooperatives to use a non-lethal technique of scaring large mammals from farm fields by blasting red-hot chili, saving farmers their livelihoods without killing wildlife”
Poaching
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.

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