Black pepper
Sun-dried under the Kampot sun. Intense, spicy aromas — the flagship, and the pepper that started it all.
Fair Farms Co., Ltd. · impact first, business follows
Elected the company with the best social and environmental responsibility in the Kingdom of Cambodia.
Best corporate social responsibility and environment — Chamber of Commerce and Industry France Cambodge, 2021. The only Fair for Life certified company in Cambodia, certified since 2018.
77.8% Fair for Life performance · Ecocert audit, 25 May 2026
100+
partner smallholder farmers
69%
of the workforce are women
+30%
above conventional market price, paid to farmers
13 ha
first organic and fair trade certified Kampot pepper farm (near Chhuk)
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 and Vanilla tahitensis farm. 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 two climate-controlled greenhouses and one plot intercropped with Kampot pepper. 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 and sells at a price agreed before the harvest.
On the farm
ហ៊ាន សុខុំ
Hean Sokhom
In charge of operations
អែប វ៉ូ
Ep Vo
Vanilla supervisor
សេង ភាន់
Seng Phorn
Pepper grower
Founders
Norbert Binot
Founder & chief executive
Celine Nguy
Co-founder & chief sustainability officer
Frédéric Fretard
Co-founder & chief financial officer
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
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.
Education
Bayon School
A standing partnership with Bayon School: internships that bring young Cambodians into the business, in the field and in the office.
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.
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.
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.
Audited score
77.8%
Fair for Life overall performance
Scored by an independent auditor against the full Fair for Life standard, every year since 2018.
Ecocert audit · 25 May 2026
Key figures
100+
Partner smallholder farmers
Company presentation · 2026
69%
Of employees are women
8 full-time · 110 seasonal · 2026
+30%
Above conventional market price, on average
Fair trade price commitment · 2026
13ha
Owned farm — the first organic and fair trade certified Kampot pepper farm in Cambodia
Ecocert EOS and NOP · since 2018
8t
Dry pepper in a good year — 6,000 to 8,000 kg marketed
Company presentation · 2026
Nature
Organic since 2018, under two sets of rules at once.
Ecocert certifies the farm to both. On the ground that means cover crops, composting and no chemical inputs — on 13 hectares of laterite soil that has to still be there in fifty years.
Europe
EU organic regulation
Ecocert EOS · since 2018
United States
USDA National Organic Program
7 CFR Part 205 · since 2018
Five-year targets · Asian Development Bank project
Targets, not results
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
Source: company presentation · 2026
Proof
Certificates, with their numbers and dates.
01 / 04
Ecocert SAS
Fair for Life
Fair trade certification. Certified partner since 2018.
- Client
- Performance
- 77.8%
- Last audit
- 25 May 2026
02 / 04
Ecocert SAS
USDA National Organic Program
Certified to the USDA organic regulations, 7 CFR Part 205, for crops and handling.
- Certificate
- Client
- Issued
- 6 February 2026
03 / 04
Ecocert SAS
European Union organic · TRACES
Certificate for operators and exporters in third countries, for products imported into the European Union as organic.
- Certificate
- Client
- Certified since
- 2018
04 / 04
KPPA
Kampot Pepper protected geographical indication
Member of the Kampot Pepper Promotion Association and recognised Kampot Pepper packager.
- Association
- KPPA member
- Packager since
- 1 June 2020
Scans of every certificate are available on request — ask us for them. Tap a number to copy it.
On film
The farm, filmed by other people.
Three films across seven years. Press play — they open with sound.
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2018
Bringing social responsibility and organic farming to the next level in Cambodia
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2023
Empowering local communities through sustainable pepper farming
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2025
Spotlight — Fair Farms, the future of sustainable farming
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- Office
- #188, 1st floor, room 1, Arata Park Road
Banlar S'et village, Sangkat Khmuenh
Khan Chamkar Mon, Phnom Penh, Cambodia