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This regional peppercorn project aims to increase the competitiveness and sustainability of the regional peppercorn industry in terms of consistent supply of high-quality safe peppercorn from small-scale farmer driven value-chains. This will be achieved by developing harmonised code of practices (CoP) for food safety and hygiene requirements of peppercorn and improving its compliance by smallholders, which will result in increased sales to premium international markets such as the EU, USA, and achieve positive impacts on the livelihoods of rural households.
This will restore the food manufacturing industry confidence in peppercorn sourced from the region. The project will apply an innovative approach of Participatory Guarantee System (PGS) towards capacity development of smallholders for adoption of Code of Practices (CoP).
