{"id":356,"date":"2018-06-11T04:09:38","date_gmt":"2018-06-11T04:09:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/giveback.market\/?p=356"},"modified":"2018-07-08T18:07:40","modified_gmt":"2018-07-08T18:07:40","slug":"kampot-pepper-promotion-association","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/giveback.market\/index.php\/2018\/06\/11\/kampot-pepper-promotion-association\/","title":{"rendered":"Kampot Pepper Promotion Association"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-376 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/giveback.market\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/KPPA_Logo2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/giveback.market\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/KPPA_Logo2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/giveback.market\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/KPPA_Logo2-324x324.jpg 324w, https:\/\/giveback.market\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/KPPA_Logo2-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>I have been back in Phnom Voar, the heart of the Kampot Pepper region, for about a month and have been visiting small farmers as well as the Kampot Pepper Promotion Association (KPPA) that represents hundreds of small pepper farmers in Kampot and Kep provinces &#8211; the only areas that are allowed to use the GI (geographical indication) mark.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_364\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-364\" style=\"width: 375px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-364\" src=\"https:\/\/giveback.market\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Pepper-Helper.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"375\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/giveback.market\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Pepper-Helper.png 211w, https:\/\/giveback.market\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Pepper-Helper-100x100.png 100w, https:\/\/giveback.market\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Pepper-Helper-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 375px) 100vw, 375px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-364\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">My pepper helper<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>From the KPPA website:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Ancestral know-how<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>These pepper lovers, smitten with their product, proud of their traditional values and definitely looking into the future, are the keepers of an ancestral know-how, of a way of production where the man and his land make one with a unique goal: producing the highest quality pepper.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It is truly wonderful to witness the re-birth and expansion of such an ancient farming system that will help ensure the community and economic development of an area so devastated by civil war.<\/p>\n<p>We are now working directly with KPPA to help build a Fair Trade distribution system for the Kampot Pepper Farmers. Here&#8217;s a short video I took at a local farm:<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 980px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('video');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-356-1\" width=\"980\" height=\"613\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/giveback.market\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Sundrying.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/giveback.market\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Sundrying.mp4\">https:\/\/giveback.market\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Sundrying.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been back in Phnom Voar, the heart of the Kampot Pepper region, for about a month and have been visiting small farmers as well as the Kampot Pepper Promotion Association (KPPA) that represents hundreds of small pepper farmers in Kampot and Kep provinces &#8211; the only areas that are allowed to use the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/giveback.market\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/giveback.market\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/giveback.market\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/giveback.market\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/giveback.market\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/giveback.market\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":378,"href":"https:\/\/giveback.market\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356\/revisions\/378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/giveback.market\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/giveback.market\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/giveback.market\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}