Inventory of Community Forests to Assess Carbon Stocks APRIL 2021
COMACO undertakes an active role in helping communities understand the value of their forests by increasing opportunities in the market place through careful management of these resources. This past February COMACO, together with colleagues from the Forestry Department and with help from community forest guards, conducted environmental inventory assessments in eight community conservation areas N E W S L E T T E R totaling --- hectares. The inventory helped to quantify the volume of carbon stocks and the diversity of tree species and potential forest products found in these areas.
FUTURE FOODS
INNOVATION The exercise produced an important EVOLUTION body of work that
will inform communities what resources they own as well as the basis for earning revenues from carbon credits. Despite the almost incessant rains, the team completed their work, often in remote forested areas that required overnight camping. As part of our cultural practice, the team paid a courtesy call to the Royal Highnesses (local chiefs) to explain the purpose of the exercise and ask permission to undertake the survey. The final results will be shared with local community leaders.
Expanding COMACO's Bee Hives -Now Over 30,000 COMACO is supporting communities living around Kasanka National Park in Chitambo District, and Lavushimanda National Parks in Lavushimanda District, with alternative livelihood activities like beekeeping, through its partner KASANKA TRUST LTD. The main objective of the project is to uplift the community livelihood and incentive for wildland and wildlife conservation in Kasanka and Lavushimanda National Parks and adjacent areas within the two Chiefdoms, through land use planning, honey production, conservation farming and market linkages for produce issued from these communities. COMACO is supporting 1,600 farmers with 8,000 Top Bar beehives both in Chitambo and Mpumba Chiefdoms respectively. So far, Farmers have baited and hung 5,976 beehives in the Community Forest Area with GPS points and other data collected for each one. COMACO Staff, Cooperative leaders, beekeeping mentors and Community Forest Managements Group (CFMGs) leaders are working together to bait and hang the beehives in the community forest areas.
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Alt Protein Startup HaoFood Partners With Restaurants across Shanghai to Launch Its Peanut-Based Chicken
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Female-led food-tech startup HaoFood, which develops peanutbased meats, has recently partnered with five restaurants in Shanghai to offer Chinese consumers a new plant-based experience that will feature authentic dishes from cultures around the world. Founded last year, the Shanghaibased HaoFood is among the world’s first brands to develop meat alternatives using peanuts, unlike other companies that either use soy, wheat or pea. The firm’s first product is an Asian fried chicken alternative and can be used in a variety of dishes including Chinese-style street food fried chicken, Japanese chicken katsu and Indonesian specialty ayam geprek.
and the present being customers’ experiences today Astrid Prajogo, CEO, HaoFood Other restaurants like The Pawon will bring consumers plant-based versions of its authentic Indonesian chicken dishes such as sate ayam, ayam rendang, and dabu-dabu grilled chicken; STYX will offer streetfood that originates from Southeast Asia such as chicken satay, chicken curry rice, chicken bites, and fusion tacos. Elsewhere, Topolino plans to cook several authentic Sicilan foods including pizza, pasta, salads and paninis.
Starting this mont (April), HaoFood along with its five restaurant partners in Shanghai, such as Green Friday (Xujiahui Station), Topolino (Changping Rd Station), STYX (Hengshan Rd Station), Wrap and Roll (Jiangsu Rd Station), and The Pawon (Yili Rd Station), will offer guests a plant-based dining experience. We want to unite the past, present, and future. The past being traditional menus by dedicated chefs, the future being plant-based meat,
In addition, last year, HaoFood was admitted into ProVeg Incubator’s
latest cohort of women-led techs that are making groundbreaking innovations in the alt protein market, as well as in Brinc’s China Alt Protein program. Prajogo added: “We all know eating meat is less sustainable, but it’s an important part of so many traditional menus. So plant-based meat is one one of the ways to preserve this because we can continue our culinary heritage but also respect the Earth.” Apart from HaoFood, other food techs are innovating with unique alternative ingredients to disrupt the alt protein sector, for instance, Chile-based NotCo, is using AI technology to create vegan milk out of chicory, cabbage, pineapple, and several other ingredients, and in France, Update foods is developing milk-free dairy alternatives out of faba bean protein and algae oil. In Asia, the alternative protein sector is booming, with more and more restaurants accepting plant-based products in their menus. Recently, in Hong Kong, 170 restaurant outlets, as well as the city’s supermarket giant ParknShop, are expanding their plant-based products with Impossible Foods and in Singapore, Next Gen Foods debuted its plantbased chicken brand across 11 restaurants in the city.
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FUMPI TAKES ON THE NUTRITIONAL CHALLENGES – AS THEY PROCESS LOCAL CEREALS INTO PORRIDGE FLOURS
Fumpi, a local brand claiming its share on the market, through the innovation of nutritious products using local cereals and legumes. The Joyous mum company is currently processing natural non GMO Nutritional porridge flours and peanut butter under the FUMPI Brand. The Company buys the raw materials mostly Soya, millet, sorghum and Moringa from small scale farmers especially women farmers throughout Zambia. In March 2016 with support from the National Technology Business Center (NTBC), The FUMPI Brand received product certification from the Zambia Bureau of Standards (ZABS) and the Food and Drugs Control Laboratory under the Ministry of Health thereby giving the products the necessary certifications and market assurance and recognition that has led to generation of demand from major chain stores, supermarkets, grocery stores, health shops, public and private institutions promoting good nutrition in Zambia and households at large.
The company aims to scale up production /processing capabilities in order to make the products readily available throughout Zambia and beyond due to the immense nutritional benefits, of the products. Expansion will result in further empowering of small scale farmers especially women who supply the raw materials to the company. FUMPI Brand Flours are from a combination of Soya Beans, Maize meal, Rice, Finger Millet ,Groundnuts, Sorghum, Cassava and Moringa grown by small scale farmers in Zambia. Through our processing initiatives, JMFP acts as a ready market for these diversified products grown by small scale farmers resulting elevating their social and economic conditions and livelihoods, currently the company is producing the listed nutritious Flours: 1. Fumpi Nutritional Booster 2. Finger Millet Meal 3. Sorghum Meal 4. Cassava Meal 5. Sweet potatoes porridge 6. Cowpeas Porridge MORINGA INSTANT CEREALS/ PORRIDGES 1. Peanut Meal 2. Soya Meal 3. Maize Meal 4. Millet Meal
THE HUGE POTENTIAL OF BEEF AND DAIRY IN ZAMBIA
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The huge potential for developing Zambia’s beef and dairy industries and the substantial contribution that the growth of these industries could create jobs and prosperity. We examined the scope for increasing the cattle population in Zambia, comparing the availability of grazing land and climatic conditions with those of neighboring countries. This is followed by an analysis of market prospects in the domestic, regional and international markets for beef and dairy products. It then considers the contribution that the beef and dairy industries could make to economic growth and diversification. The final section examines the industries’ potential contribution to creating jobs and increasing rural prosperity.
compared to other countries in the region, so the domestic market is small. Until recently, beef and dairy products have not featured strongly in the dietary patterns of urban Zambians. Significant parts of the Zambian population do not have a tradition of consuming large quantities of beef and dairy products but this is changing rapidly.
Beef and dairy products have high income elasticity at lower levels of income. Consumption of milk per capita in developing countries has almost doubled and meat consumption more than tripled.
Small but Growing Domestic Market
Meat and dairy products have recorded some of the fastest growth of consumption of food items
Zambians currently consume small quantities of beef and milk products
The fastest growth of consumption of meat and dairy products has been
recorded in countries transitioning from low to middle income status. Brazil and China have led the growth of meat consumption and, along with India, have led growth in the consumption of dairy products. At this stage of development, the income elasticity of these products is greater than one. As Zambia develops and incomes increase, the demand for beef and dairy products will increase rapidly from the current level of consumption. The scope for rapid increases in demand is especially high in Zambia because of the low per capita consumption levels noted above. There is evidence that this has been taking place already. The beef industry reports that, before the slowing down of growth caused by the global downturn, consumption of beef was rising by between 5–7 percent a year, and that of dairy products close to 10 percent a year.
ZAMBIA CEREAL SUPPLY/DEMAND BALANCE FOR THE 2020/21 MARKETING YEAR (May/April) Wheat 2020/21 Domestic Availability (000 tonnes) 2020 production Expected stock drawdown
Rice
Coarse grains
Total cereals
192
23
3 457
3 673
192
23
3 457
3 673
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-
-
-
233
58
3 462
3 753
227
49
2 311
2 587
Non-food use
5
3
502
510
Exports
1
4
150
156
Expected stock build-up
-
2
500
502
2020/21 Import Requirements (000 tonnes)
41
35
5
81
Per Caput Consumption (kg/year)
12
3
126
141
Previous year's production
152
20
2 086
2 257
Previous five years' average production
185
22
2 772
2 979
2020 production compared to average (%)
104
106
125
123
Previous year's imports
36
31
10
77
Previous five years' average imports
40
22
6
68
102
158
83
119
2020/21 Utilization (000 tonnes) Food use
2020/21 Comparison with the previous year and the recent average Production (000 tonnes)
Import Requirements (000 tonnes)
2020/21 Import requirements compared to average (%) Note: Rice marketing year January/December of second year shown.
Additional Information Population mid-2020 (000s): 18 384 Crop Calendar (*major foodcrop) Maize* Millet Sorghum Wheat Lean period Sowing Growing Harvesting
Source: FAO/GIEWS, 2021.
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