Africa – World Honey Exchange.

Posted on September 7, 2023December 28, 2023 by worldhoneyexchange

Swahili Honey

Country: Tanzania | Region: Multiple

Our Story

Joseph, Chris and Charles started Swahili Honey in 2015 with strong values to produce high quality honey and support Tanzania’s rural beekeepers.

We are proud to continue our tradition and we couldn’t have done that without our valuable customers. With their support we have grown a number of our rural beekeepers to more than 700, and enabling us to keep doing what we love – bringing to market a world-class, ethically sourced, delicious and pure 100% Tanzanian honey.

Proudly Tanzanian owned, Swahili Honey has a long held commitment to quality control and assurance, product innovation and driving consumer awareness and consumption of honey.

Swahili Honey passionately cares about our bees and their hard work to make this amazing sweetness. That is why we have chosen to put the honey drop at the centre of our brandmark, that Swahili Honey will handle every honey drop produced with love and care.

Our Honey

Posted on May 3, 2023February 5, 2024 by worldhoneyexchange

Wafroex

Country: Nigeria | Region: Multiple

Our Story

Wafroex was started to build a bridge between west African population zones, forests to the rest of the world. World Honey Exchange and Wafroex have been collaborating over the past year, and are grateful and happy to be sharing what Nigeria’s botanicals, bees & people have to offer. Wafroex is working with smallholder framing communities, providing training, materials, and market access.

Our Honey

Nigerian Southern Wildflower (Casearia Barteri & Parkia)

Posted on July 13, 2020April 24, 2021 by worldhoneyexchange

Kilimo Nyuki Tanzania

Country: Tanzania | Region: Various

Our Story

Swahili for ‘honeybee agriculture’, Kilimo Nyuki was concepted in 2016 to address challenges within the Tanzanian beekeeping and agricultural sector. Farmers that managed cash crops were not effectively utilizing native honeybee colonies to increase crop yeilds. In Tanzania, the potential for improved yields for integrative beekeeping includes avocadoes, sunflowers, squash and many more. Beyond improving agricultural yields, the project provides technical training and equipment for producers in various regions, including Njombe, Iringa, Katavi, Bukoba, Dodoma and Coastal Tanzania.

Honeybee biproducts inlcuding honey, beeswax, and pollen are often supplementary goods that can provide substantial value for full or part-time beekeepers. Providing market access for these biproducts is not just critical for supplemental income to rural producers — the income can incentivize protection of natural ecosystems where honey and bees are already abundant, including vast stretches of Miombo woodland habitat that is home to countless indigenous floral and faunal species.

Kilimo Nyuki aims to organize and encourage beekeeping as a viable economic tool across Tanzania’s diverse ecological systems. By working more directly with local farming and beekeeping communities, Kilimo Nyuki provides another outlet for honeybee biproducts that help support and protect the diversity, challenges, and opportunities of the Tanzanian agricultural and forestry sectors.

Our Honey

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Posted on July 1, 2020December 28, 2023 by worldhoneyexchange

Maryiza

Country: Ethiopia | Region: Multiple

Our Story

Each batch of honey reflects a major floral source. Working with small-batch, local producers in natural forests allows for an amazing range of unique honeys.

Working with forest-based communities, these partners are training producers on best-management practices. Improving management practices has allowed for improved floral reflections of indigenous trees of these unique regions which include Gera forest and the Majang Cloud Forest (UNESCO world heritage site) of Ethiopia.

The goal of these community-based products is to build more sustainable and equitable value chains for local populations, while incentivizing the protection of indigenous plants and forest systems.

Maryiza honeys’ are raw and created in partnership with smallholder forest communities that produce honey utilizing traditional beekeeping methods across Ethiopia’s Southwestern Afromontane Region. Given the traditional methods, which you can learn more about on their Field Notes blog, many of their honeys are biodynamic and naturally ferment, crystallize, and/or evolve in other ways. Maryiza honeys’ biodynamic nature does not affect edibility or food safety – like all other honeys, it will never expire.