Supporting local businesses that invest in nature.
Priority Impact Areas
Saltwater Agriculture
Cultivating salt-tolerant crops offers a natural climate solution by sequestering carbon, reducing freshwater usage, and restoring degraded ecosystems.
Seagrass Positive Sea Cucumber
Growing and harvesting sea cucumber species in and around seagrass ecosystems improves seabed health and supports carbon sequestration all while providing valuable income for coastal communities.
Mangrove Positive Shrimp
Combining sustainable shrimp farming with mangrove conservation or restoration enhances coastal biodiversity, boosts local livelihoods, and sequesters carbon.
Mangrove-integrated Mud Crab
Community-led mud crab harvesting and nature-positive practices help align economic incentives with the protection of the mangrove ecosystem.
Saltwater Agriculture Partners
Seawater Solutions
Seawater Solutions is helping coastal communities grow salt-tolerant crops to help them turn degraded farms into productive wetlands.
BC+ is helping Seawater Solutions work with local communities to restore salt marshes, measure their climate and biodiversity impacts, attract greater private finance and establish a business model that can be adopted by others.
Portugal
Phyto Corporation
Phyto Corporation is a South Korean agri-food tech company using salicornia to produce salicornia-based food products and salt alternatives.
BC+ is working with Phyto to pilot intensive salicornia production in Mexico to better understand the social and climate impacts of salicornia production.
Mexico
Seagrass Positive Sea Cucumber Partners
Asili Company LTD
Asili Company was founded on the principle that production models built on genuine partnerships, where communities govern their own marine resources and share directly in the value those resources generate, succeed where others have not. They are working in Zanzibar to raise and harvest sea cucumbers using community-owned and managed no-take MPAs.
Zanzibar
Tidal Moon
Tidal Moon sustainably harvests and processes sea cucumbers for medicinal, nutritional and cultural purposes.
BC+ is helping Tidal Moon build staff capacity, launch its export operations and develop new products for the cosmetics market.
Australia
Aore Aquaculture
Aore operates one of the South Pacific's most successful sea cucumber hatcheries. Using their strong track record of successfully breeding and rearing sea cucumber.
BC+ is supporting Aore in creating a sustainable sea cucumber aquaculture model centered on community inclusion, livelihoods, and seagrass conservation.
Vanuatu
Mapape
Mapape's community-led mangrove restoration work paired with their sea cucumber farming business is a powerful example of community-owned solutions driving climate resilience and economic opportunity.
Tanzania
Mangrove Positive Shrimp Partners
JALA
Through climate adaptive farms and ecosystem restoration, including mangrove rehabilitation, JALA builds healthier and more resilient environments for shrimp. They work alongside farmers and buyers across the shrimp ecosystem to build a connected and resilient supply chain, supporting climate adaptive shrimp farming by improving data accuracy, reducing production risks, and helping stabilize yields.
Indonesia
AquaRev
AquaRev is committed to building a thriving and sustainable ecosystem for shrimp farmers through active collaboration. They enhance environmental health and resource availability, fostering economic stability for farming communities. They strive to work hand-in-hand with farmers to develop practices that support their livelihoods while protecting the environment, reflecting the commitment to responsible aquaculture and environmental stewardship.
Indonesia
Mangrove-integrated Mud Crab Partners
Mangrove Crab Labs
Mangrove Crab Labs is a sustainable mud crab aquaculture community enterprise dedicated to mangrove-integrated mud crab farming, mangrove restoration, and community empowerment.
Indonesia
Living Seas Aquafeeds
Living Seas is piloting mangrove-integrated mud crab farming techniques, and manufactures sustainable, functional, and regenerative feeds and supplements for crustacean aquaculture.
BC+ is supporting Living Seas to optimize approaches to mangrove-integrated mud crab production and to provide trainings to local smallholder fishers to engage in sustainable, mangrove-positive aquaculture.
Indonesia