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The Elephant Pepper Vision is a world where African farmers lead productive healthy lives, free from poverty and where human and elephant populations coexist in harmony.
The Problem: Elephants eat small-scale farmers crops.
These crops are often the only food available to these rural communities. The conflict between farmers and elephants as farmers protect their only food source leads to heated battles, with death and injury on both sides often occurring. Our objective is to reduce this conflict.
The Solution: Elephants Hate Chilli. They dislike its spicy smell and taste.
 Our partner NGO, Elephant Pepper Development Trust, trains farmers to use non-harmful chilli deterrents rather than injuring or killing elephants. Farmers surround their food crops with a buffer of chilli plants, thereby using the chillies as a natural deterrent. Elephants soon learn that the smell of chilli means humans, spicy discomfort and a non-edible crop. This simple approach helps deter elephants from raiding crops, avoiding the conflict before it happens.
Poor Communities: Poor people cannot afford to be conservationist without some support.
Elephant Pepper provides a cash crop income to poor rural communities by producing chilli products using chillies grown by these farmers. Elephant Pepper purchases chillies from farmers that participate in our elephant friendly projects.
Elephant Pepper and rural farmers work collaboratively under a shared vision of wildlife conservation and sustainable economic development. Elephant Pepper brings financial, social and environmental benefits to its stakeholders; linking farmers to a global markets and by raising awareness around successful approaches to wildlife conflict mitigation.
Since its inception, Elephant Pepper has been committed to the goals of fair trade, equal opportunities for women, and economic and environmental stability for rural Africans. As part of that commitment, the Elephant Pepper Development Trust spends a significant proportion of its time providing specialist training ranging from agricultural skills, HIV/AIDS awareness and conservation farming in addition to supporting education projects for participants and their families.
We respect and uphold our values by looking after the general well bring of our farmers, and provide products to our customers that have been made with integrity from beginning to end.
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