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The Sweet Taste of Success!

How do you define success? Is it the achievement of a particular goal, or the ability to increasingly achieve more? For thousands of Zambian families, success is having food in the shed or being able to keep that child in school. COMACO defines success as continuous improvements in food security, conservation compliance, increased farmer enrollment, wider crop and enterprise diversity, increased animal numbers – and at the heart of all of this, growth in the IT’S WILD! business.

To read COMACO's 2009 Business Report, click here!

To watch a video on the successful partnership between COMACO and General Mills, click here!

By conducting periodic farm-side compliance checks, annual wildlife fly-overs, business audits and progress reviews, COMACO continuously assesses it's  progress towards achieving  goals, year after year.  COMACO goals are both short term and long, with an aim of becoming a fully self-sustaining, fully Zambian project that provides a model for success in sustainable food security and ecosystem preservation other rural developing nations across Africa and worldwide.

We're growing in leaps and bounds and showing success in our efforts!

Major areas of success include:

• Ever increasing numbers of farmers participating in the program
• Increased average income for participating farmers and a widening gap between members and non-members
• Increasing percentage of food secure families
• Increased poacher transformation and removal of snares and guns from the ecosystem
• Growing diversity in crop production and livelihood, including thriving fish farming and sweet growth in the amount of honey produced and sold
• Booming sales of the IT'S WILD! products nationwide

You're invited to read more about each of the factors contributing to COMACO success! For presentation materials or full reports on any aspect of COMACO, please contact us!

Food Production

Consistent, reliable food production is the key to food security - a core COMACO objective. COMACO has tangibly increased food production in Luangwa Valley - read more about how we do it!

Income Diversity

Income diversity is as important to the reduction of poverty as crop diversity is to food security. Successfully commercialized crop farming, beekeeping, fish farming, and bushcamp management are replacing poaching and charcoaling as major sources of income for Luangwa Valley - providing reliable incomes without risk of jail time or injury!  Read more!

Ecosystem Protection

From conducting poacher transformation to training on earth-enriching organic farming, and providing forest-saving livelihood alternatives, COMACO is making the forests safe for both people and animals. Where once deadly snares indiscriminately strangled impala and  zebra alike, and gun-carrying poachers waited to hack the tusks from entire elephant families, now you'll find tour guides teaching tracking and now transformed poachers fire only chili powder to keep elephants out of maize fields. To read all about COMACO's success in stabilizing wildlife numbers and reducing poaching while supporting economic empowerment, click here!

Market Expansion

Locally accessible markets are springing up all over Luangwa Valley! With 74 local depots linked to 6 community trading centers, COMACO participation now covers 3 major agricultural zones and protects approximately 70% of the Luangwa Valley! Farmers are able to not only raise surplus crops, but get fair market value for their efforts. Ongoing training, improved communication tools, and community leadership are all coming together to prove that working together CAN work for us all! To read more about the latest COMACO expansions, click here!

Good For Zambia, Good For You!

The IT'S WILD!  product line is thriving! Both the all-natural foods  and IT'S WILD! Bushcamps are growing in popularity and support. Though the quality and value of the products would sell themselves, our latest ad campaign has helped to make Zambia aware of just how much IT'S WILD! brings to Zambia and how much it gives back.