Ceriops’ Mangrove Honey

Ceriops’ mangrove honey business model is anchored on a specific model of access and benefit sharing mechanism. The benefit sharing is 50:50 expressed as a percentage between the community and Ceriops. Working agreements between Ceriops and community groups are signed to define roles and set expectations for the mangrove honey business. The 50/50 benefit-sharing mechanism is a reflection of Integrated efforts (Ceriops’, and the community’s) complementing each other with defined roles to optimize the success of the projects in the mangroves. The 50% for the community is the farmgate price for which the community farmers sell their mangrove honey to Ceriops. The other 50% is the market price for which Ceriops will sell the mangrove honey to the high-end market.

Ceriops’ Mangrove Honey business model’s prime focus is on the restoration of the mangrove ecosystem and exploring the ecosystem’s goods and services for livelihood generation. Therefore, we plant mangroves and monitor them for 18 months (to grow the blue forest). As a means to conserve the planted site, we attach an alternative livelihood component (led by the community groups living adjacent to the mangrove ecosystem). As a result, that particular site we have restored would be protected from logging by the community.