Forested is a women-founded and led regenerative agriculture business operating across Ethiopia, Kenya, and Uganda. Launched in 2019 with a conservation-focused forest honey business, it has since grown into a digitally enabled ingredient marketplace connecting global brands with smallholder farmers and forest dependent communities who sustainably produce and harvest non-timber forest products.
Through this model, Forested works with community-focused SMEs to aggregate, process and supply regenerative ingredients – including botanical oils, shea butter, bee products, herbs and spices – to global beauty brands. This model strengthens forest positive, climate resilient livelihoods while ensuring communities benefit directly from protecting and restoring biodiverse forest landscapes.
P4F is supporting Forested to launch a regenerative agriculture training programme for farmers and SMEs, refine its product offering and marketing strategy, and lay the foundations for its new insetting model and monitoring systems.