Regenerative Ingredients that protect and restore abundant, biodiverse ecosystems
Forested is a women-led Ingredient Insets company envisioning a world full of abundant, biodiverse ecosystems. We partner with conscious consumer packaged goods (CPG) brands to deliver ingredients (botanical oils, butters, bee products, herbs/spices, and more) that are climate-negative, nature-positive, and socially-just. Through practicing regenerative agroforestry with indigenous communities, we restore the world's most critically biodiverse ecosystems across the Global South.
Abebech , a lead beekeeper from the Andinet Co-op (Kafa UNESCO Reserve, Southwest Ethiopia). Her Geteme honey can be found in products made by LUSH and 54 Thrones.
Our BeeBond research moves from desk to the field on our first trip to meet with Central Kenyan smallholder coffee farmers with core implementation partners, TechnoServe and ICIPE - International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology!
We launched our pre-pilot of mobile money and digital and financial literacy for 50 partner beekeepers and land stewards in Sheka UNESCO Biosphere Reserve. Big thanks to our partnership with Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, our incredible farmer trainers, the Sheka Zone government, and Commercial Bank of Ethiopia
PHILOSOPHY
We’re an agroforestry enterprise envisioning a world where forest ecosystems are more lucrative conserved than destroyed
Forested partners with smallholder farmers - starting in Ethiopia - to sustainably grow, process, and market the most distinctive, premium forest-based products.
The driving force behind our vision has been the harmonization of forest conservation, agriculture production, and a more equitable world for forest-based communities. Aligning communities’ socio-economic incentives and forests’ ecological needs is the hardline key to sustainably deliver high quality products to our clients.
PRODUCTS AND SERVICES
Forested has on-the-ground expertise building natural ingredient supply chains from field-to-port in East Africa. With deep know-how and networks of smallholder farmers and land stewards, Forested fulfills global brands’ needs for direct source, impact-driven ingredients. We have a proven track record implementing conservation agriculture practices for beekeeping in Ethiopia, conserving ecosystems and boosting farmer livelihood through training.
We Specialise in:
Directly Sourced Raw Ingredients
On - The - Ground Regenerative Projects
Insetting Solutions
“The journey so far with the Forested has been incredibly positive. They are very transparent in the way they operate, and offer high quality product which helped to build a great trust foundation very quickly. Their focus on regeneration and connecting farmers to markets for forest based products tied in perfectly with Lush.
I hope that more businesses, not just cosmetics, can appreciate the agroforestry venture that Forested Foods are on, and support them on their journey combatting deforestation..”
Abi Whisken, Creative Buyer - LUSH