Over 8000 bee hives now in use
by producer group members

Alternative livelihoods

To promote more secure rural livelihoods that are in balance with local natural resources, COMACO supports efforts to provide producer groups with new or improved livelihood skills to help increase household sources of food and income. These efforts are directed at ways to better use natural resources without depleting them or improving ways to increase production of conventional sources of food and income and thus reduce pressure on more sensitive, renewable resources. In particular, COMACO has focused these efforts on poultry, goat rearing, fish farming, bee keeping, and dry season farming of fruits and vegetables. One particular group of people COMACO has worked closely with to help introduce these skills are local hunters who have a history of poaching wildlife. These efforts have also helped 113 poachers to surrender their firearms and take up entirely new livelihoods, as part of a COMACO activity called Poacher Transformation. To view these results please click here -