PARTNER
Healthy Seaweed (Café) Tanzania
Healthy Seaweed Café Tanzania is a social enterprise focused on increasing local seaweed consumption and improving healthy living for seaweed farmers in Zanzibar and Kilwa. By promoting innovation along the value chain and raising awareness of healthy food, the café helps unlock new economic opportunities.
Partner Type
Organisation
Location
Tanzania
Funded Since
2022
Total Amount Funded
$25,000
ABOUT
Healthy Seaweed (Cafe) Tanzania
The café develops and markets seaweed-based products using environmentally friendly methods, ensuring high nutritional quality. Their work spans recipe development, nutrition education, and support for local seaweed farmers. With a strong focus on innovation in product design, the café pioneers seaweed’s role in untapped food markets. Their approach combines ecological impact with community-based entrepreneurship.
Contribution of Mustardseed Trust
Mustardseed Trust contributed to their social and environmental inclusion strategy, helping expand farmer engagement and product development. The grant also helped strengthen their market presence and community outreach efforts.
Healthy Seaweed Café Tanzania is driving…
positive environmental and social outcomes by supporting farmers and promoting sustainable seaweed production.
130 seaweed farmers currently engaged in Zanzibar and Kilwa, with a goal to reach 1,000 farmers by 2030.
Estimated 460 tonnes of CO₂ sequestered annually across 8 hectares of seaweed farms, with a 2030 target of 1,300 tonnes.
Farmers are seeing an increase in income from 30–80 USD per month now, with a projected rise to 80–300 USD per month by 2030.