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Shopping on Elephantpepper.com directly aids farmers and elephants in Africa. All our chillies are sourced from small-scale farmers and we committed to the fair trade movement.
We believe in paying a fair price to our chilli farmers. By creating a global market for chillies, Elephant Pepper PTY Ltd. brand promotes a trade-not-aid philosophy for developing the economic capacity of Africans. Through the sales of our chilli sauces, Elephant Pepper PTY Ltd. has committed ten percent of profits to the Elephant Pepper Development Trust so it may educate African communities about safe, effective problem animal control in elephant-populated areas. We also encourage consumers to donate to Elephant Pepper Development Trust’s wildlife management efforts and help improve the quality of human life in Africa.
While farmers may initially grow chillies only as a food security method, Elephant Pepper PTY Ltd. brand has created a market-based incentive to encourage farmers to grow chillies as a high value cash crop, too. The unique collaboration between our sauce company and the Elephant Pepper Development Trust does more than provide humanitarian aid to rural communities in Africa. Rather, farmers are linking into a commercial opportunity that can improve their livelihoods and protect them from elephants. Our hope is that Elephant Pepper sauces will raise awareness about the production of high-quality chillies in Africa and build a strong export crop for the struggling economies of Southern Africa’s developing countries.
Elephants and humans can happily co-exist. While the African tourism industry relies on a proliferation of elephants to attract curious travelers, the reality is that protected land area for elephants is shrinking and elephant populations can be found roaming through inhabited villages throughout rural Africa. Rural communities often view elephants as pests, and would rather shoot them than let them roam through their fields. Since 1997, the Elephant Pepper Development Trust has been working to safely resolve the wildlife-human conflict in the region, and growing chillies is just one way to keep elephants alive and keep farmers prosperous.
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