Black pepper
Sun-dried under the Kampot sun. Intense, spicy aromas — the flagship, and the pepper that started it all.
Recognition
Four times on a jury's shortlist since 2019.
Judged by chambers of commerce, by Oxfam and by the United Nations Development Programme — each time on what the business does for people and for land, not on what it sells.
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2019
Laureate, French Entrepreneur Abroad Trophy
Entrepreneur category, Asia-Oceania.
Le Petit Journal · 2019
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2021
Best corporate social responsibility and environment
Winner of the France Cambodia Business Grand Prix — the award this page opens with.
Chamber of Commerce and Industry France Cambodge · 2021
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2023
Finalist, impact SME programme
Selected for training, capacity building and introductions to investors.
Oxfam · 2023
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2024
Finalist, Global Sustainable Investment Ventures Cambodia
One of nine ventures chosen for climate adaptation in Cambodia.
United Nations Development Programme · 2024
Our products
Pepper and vanilla, from one certified estate.
Cambodia's first organic and fair trade certified Kampot pepper farm — and, an hour away in Kep, a greenhouse curing Tahitian vanilla. Two crops, one chain of custody, one audit.
01 — Vanilla
Tahitian vanilla, so that one bad pepper season is not the whole year.
A pilot plantation of Vanilla tahitensis under a climate-controlled greenhouse in Kep. Farmers get the training, the cuttings free of charge, agronomist support, and a commitment to buy what they grow.
500 kg
target annual production of cured vanilla
2 crops
a second income line for partner farmers
Pilot targets. Source: company presentation · 2026
02 — Pepper
One vine, four harvests, four peppers.
All organic, all Kampot protected geographical indication. When they are picked and what happens next is the whole difference between them.
Red pepper
Harvested only at full maturity, sorted berry by berry. Fruity and sweet — the premium grade.
White pepper
Hulled by hand. Softer and more subtle — delicate where the others are bold.
Green pepper
Best fresh from the vine, or fermented in salt. The secret behind Kampot's blue crab.
Full specification sheet on request — ask us for it.
The network
Over one hundred farming families, and the people who answer for them.
The network grows every season. Each partner farms organic, sells at a price agreed before the harvest, and appears here with their consent.
Grower partners
portrait pending
name · commune
years with Fair Farms
portrait pending
name · commune
years with Fair Farms
portrait pending
name · commune
years with Fair Farms
the grid grows as partners come in — pending from Celine: portrait, name, commune, years with Fair Farms and one line in their own words, per partner
On the farm
photo
pending
pending
ហ៊ីម ណេម
Him Nem
Manager at the farm
photo
pending
pending
អែប វ៉ូ
Ep Vo
Vanilla supervisor
Founders
Norbert Binot
Founder & chief executive
Entrepreneur in technology and agriculture, working on sustainable solutions for Cambodian farming.
Celine Nguy
Co-founder & chief sustainability officer
Fifteen years in project management and business transformation. Majority shareholder and the Cambodian anchor of the company.
Frédéric Fretard
Co-founder & chief financial officer
Twenty-five years in financial services and asset management.
Our CSR projects
The premium is not ours. It is spent on what the community asks for.
Fair for Life sets the floor: a stable price, agreed ahead of the season and paid on collection, averaging 30% above the conventional market. On top of the price sits the fair trade premium — money that does not belong to the company.
It pays for water, for schooling, for training in organic practice and financial management, and for holding production through a longer dry season. These are the projects running now.
+30%
above conventional market price, on average, before the premium is counted
2018
first year of Fair for Life certification — audited by Ecocert every year since
pending from Celine — premium paid in 2025 and 2024 · what it funded, by commune · how growers vote on the spend, in one sentence
Water
Wells for the communities
Premium money has gone into wells that give rural households clean drinking water through the dry season — sited with the communes that use them, not for us.
pending: number of wells · communes · years built
Education
Bayon School
A standing partnership with Bayon School: internships that bring young Cambodians into the business, in the field and in the office.
pending: interns hosted to date · how many stayed on
Exchange
PIL — with schoolchildren in France
Pupils in France follow the farm across a season: where their pepper comes from, who grows it, and what fair trade actually pays for.
pending: full programme name · partner school · pupils reached · photographs
Climate
Asian Development Bank and People in Need
A joint project to hold pepper production through a longer dry season: resilient irrigation, stronger inclusion of women in the value chain, and support for households facing the cost of a changing climate.
more projects to add — send the list and one photograph each, and they slot straight into this grid
Traceability
Six steps from a vine in Kampot to a container in Sihanoukville.
This is the same chain our auditors read. It is kept because certification requires it, not because it makes a good story.
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Farm
Vines on our own 13 hectares and on partner plots, each registered with its grower and its organic status.
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Collection
Weighed and recorded at collection, against the price agreed before the season began.
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Drying
Sun-dried on raised screens. Black pepper darkens in the open air; white pepper is soaked and hulled first.
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Sorting
Hand-graded. Red pepper is sorted berry by berry, which is most of why there is so little of it.
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Packing
Packed as a registered Kampot Pepper packager, certified by the KPPA since 1 June 2020.
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Container
Exported to France and the wider European Union, and to Singapore for the Asian market.
pending: lot-code format and whether the code on a pack resolves to a public record without a login — the strongest line in this section depends on the answer
Audited KPIs
Numbers a buyer can put in front of their board.
Every figure carries where it came from and when. Nothing on this page is rounded up for effect.
100+
Partner smallholder farmers
Source: company presentation · 2026
69%
Of employees are women
10 full-time · 110 seasonal · 2026
+30%
Above conventional market price, on average
Fair trade price commitment · 2026
77.8%
Fair for Life overall performance
Ecocert audit · 25 May 2026
13 ha
Owned farm — the first organic and fair trade certified Kampot pepper farm in Cambodia
Ecocert EOS and NOP · since 2018
8 t
Dry pepper in a good year — 6,000 to 8,000 kg marketed
Company presentation · 2026
figures pending from Celine: hectares under organic management across the partner network · destination countries · Fair for Life premium paid in 2025 and 2024 · training days delivered
Nature
Organic since 2018, under two sets of rules at once.
Ecocert certifies the farm to the European organic regulation and to the USDA National Organic Program, 7 CFR Part 205. In practice that means cover crops, composting and no chemical inputs — on 13 hectares of laterite soil that has to still be there in fifty years.
Five-year targets · Asian Development Bank project
130M
litres of water saved per year
160,000
cubic metres of soil protected from erosion
300 ha
under sustainable agriculture
$3,000
additional income per hectare, per year
Targets, not results. Source: company presentation · 2026
Proof
Certificates, with their numbers and dates.
Fair for Life
Fair trade certification, issued by Ecocert SAS. Certified partner since 2018.
client 46508 · performance 77.8%
last audit 25 May 2026
mark pending — licensed artwork
USDA National Organic Program
Certified to the USDA organic regulations, 7 CFR Part 205, for crops and handling. Issued by Ecocert SAS.
certificate 7880187533 · client 46419
issued 6 February 2026
mark pending — licensed artwork
European Union organic · TRACES
Certificate for operators and exporters in third countries, for products imported into the European Union as organic. Issued by Ecocert SAS.
certificate 2018-848TC · client 46447
certified since 2018
mark pending — licensed artwork
Kampot Pepper protected geographical indication
Member of the Kampot Pepper Promotion Association and recognised Kampot Pepper packager.
packager since 1 June 2020
mark pending — licensed artwork
HACCP
Food safety management, certified by Bureau Veritas. Renewal in progress.
issued 2024 · valid to 2027
On film
The farm, filmed by other people.
Bringing social responsibility and organic farming to the next level in Cambodia
The farm to table process for organic pepper
Spotlight — Fair Farms, the future of sustainable farming
video slots reserved for footage still to be shot: hands picking berries · drying screens in wind · the collection weigh-in · the wells the premium paid for. 8 to 15 seconds, silent, MP4 and WebM under 3 MB
Institutional partners
United Nations Development Programme · Oxfam · Asian Development Bank · People in Need · GIZ · Ecocert · Bayon School · ASEAN Circular Economy Business Alliance · Switch Asia
Where our pepper goes
Organic distributors Ecoidées and Arcadie in France · premium distributors Max Daumin and Terre Exotique · Classic Fine Foods in Singapore · and the kitchens of Plaza Athénée, Pierre Gagnaire and Odette.
Partner with us
Tell us what you need and who it is for.
We answer from Phnom Penh. If you need the specification sheet, the Fair for Life audit summary or a sample dossier for your quality team, say so here.
- Telephone and Telegram
- +855 96 270 2832
- Office
- #188, 1st floor, room 1, Arata Park Road
Banlar S'et village, Sangkat Khmuenh
Khan Chamkar Mon, Phnom Penh, Cambodia