COMACO – Community Markets for Conservation
- COMACO is a social enterprise that supports wildlife conservation and small-scale farmers in Eastern Zambia.
- Our founders saw that traditional models of wildlife conservation weren’t working. Telling people not to poach didn’t address the root cause of their action – rural poverty. Instead of punishing people for poaching, which only exacerbated issues of hunger and impoverishment when a family member went to jail, COMACO designed a system that instead rewards people for conserving their natural resources. We ask everyone we work with – poachers and farmers – to take a Conservation Pledge, agreeing to abide by a set of community-decided principles designed to safeguard the health of their soils, forests, and wildlife.
- Cargill has been present in Zambia since 2006 and is based in Lusaka, the capital and largest city of Zambia. The company is active in grain and oilseeds, trading, and providing market access to commercial farmers as well as small-scale farmers for their crops. We are continuously developing products that give consumers just what they’re seeking, advancing nutrition, food safety and sustainability. And we help all of our partners innovate and manage risk, so they can nourish the world again tomorrow.
- We operate on an integrated global basis to source, store, trade, process and distribute grains and oilseeds including wheat, corn, oilseeds, barley and sorghum, as well as vegetable oils and meals. We have a broad global presence in grain origination, shipping and processing and we have developed significant expertise in handling identity preserved and differentiated products.
- In 2015 Cargill acquired an integrated soybean oil crush, refinery and bottling business in Lusaka, further enabling the company to provide both small scale and commercial farmers with market access for their products, as well as providing soybean meal to the animal nutrition industry.
- Java Foods was founded in 2012 with the objective of providing convenient, affordable and nutritious foods made from local products. Our vision is to become a leading food manufacturer in Southern Africa committed to providing high quality and nutritious food from local products at affordable prices.
- eeZee SupaCereal is a delicious instant family cereal made with natural and nutritious corn & soy, infused with your favourite flavours and fortified with vitamins and minerals. It is also the only Zambian cereal brand to be packaged using state-of-the-art air technology to preserve taste and freshness without the use of preservatives.