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From an Idea to Making it Happen, a Blog From Our CEO
By Dale Lewis, COMACO CEO and Founder Most did not believe that a company built and led from a foundation of poor, under-skilled farmers could possibly achieve a national food brand, much le
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Wildlife Management in the Hands of Small-scale Farmers – The COMACO way
By Dale Lewis, COMACO CEO and Founder I’m going to tell you something that you’ll have a hard time believing. My work in Zambia began as a conservationist focused on elephants. Later
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Elephants and sunflowers: A life-changing transformation takes one man from poacher to landscape steward
Elephants and sunflowers: A life-changing transformation takes one man from poacher to landscape steward. Written by Nick Schonfeld Smoke Phiri looks like an archetypal henchman. His m
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Climate-smart farming aims to end poaching
(Lusaka, Zambia – 2 May 2022) – Small-scale farmers across Zambia have begun harvesting the first season crops from a climate-smart project aimed at securing livelihoods and protecti
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Time Has Run Out For Words – It’s Time To Act
(As published in the Times of Zambia on 15/11/2021) Let’s not kid ourselves. We know we’re losing Nature and we also know the perils that will follow. The COP26 meeting has made that c
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19 Years and Counting – COMACO’s History of Building a Green Economy
19 years and counting – COMACO’s history of building a Green Economy offers a platform for the new Zambian government COMACO sees small-scale farmers as critical to a Zambian Green Econo
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Counting the costs, delivering the benefits, restoring the land
Like most people, small-scale farmers respond to markets that offer the best price and typically follow the practices that markets promote. When COMACO began its relationship with farmers, w
Read MoreCOMACO and a diesel attendant
"The soil is dead," was his reply. "No nutrients. Fertilizers are too expensive for a poor farmer like me and without it, I could not produce enough to support my family, so I came to Lusaka
Read MoreCooperatives and conservation: what is so special about COMACO?
The traditional values of helping and sharing are reemerging as cooperatives build a path toward self-reliance with new farming technologies and markets that COMACO is helping to support.
Read MoreWhy we sell only healthy products
We call this approach to farming, “farming with nature”, which includes such practices as zero tillage, crop residue retention, agroforestry, and crop rotation.
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