Producers
AbelhaMoz Honey
beekeeper · honey producer · processor · wholesaler
Quissico, Zavala District, Inhambane Province, Mozambique
Abelhamoz – Sociedade Unipessoal, Limitada
AbelhaMoz Honey is the public-facing honey brand of Abelhamoz – Sociedade Unipessoal, Limitada, a Mozambican beekeeping and honey-processing business based in Quissico, Zavala District, Inhambane Province. Its harvest area extends across Inhambane Province, including the eastern coastal belt.
About the Producer
A little history
Abelhamoz – Sociedade Unipessoal, Limitada was registered in Mozambique on September 5, 2018, under NUEL 101041964. Its corporate activities include collecting and harvesting honey; processing beeswax and related bee products; placing hives for crop pollination; processing plant products; and marketing, distributing, transporting, and exporting honey and related products.
How They Work
Beekeeping in practice
AbelhaMoz runs a managed beekeeping operation that produces, processes, bottles, and markets honey. It uses distributed Langstroth-hive nodes in natural forest and works with local node keepers and community beekeepers. The model is intended to replace destructive honey-gathering practices with managed hives.
Quissico, Zavala District, Inhambane Province, Mozambique
Ecocert lists ABELHAMOZ’s address as Raios Solaris, Quissico, Zavala, Mozambique and identifies beekeeping, processing, and wholesale activities.
Inhambane Province, Mozambique
A public AbelhaMoz profile states that its honey is harvested in Inhambane Province. This is the narrowest product-origin geography supported for generic AbelhaMoz Honey in the sources reviewed.
Eastern coastal belt of Inhambane Province, Mozambique
A 2019 feature attributed to founder Steve Joubert describes the coastal belt along Inhambane Province’s eastern edge as the area supporting the project’s long-term bee-farming model. The account does not identify individual apiary sites or establish that every product lot is from this belt.
Maputo, Mozambique
The 2018 incorporation notice states the company’s then social seat was in Maputo. This is a corporate-registration fact, not evidence of honey harvest origin or current operating base.
Products & Specimens
What connects to this producer
Products listed by the Producer are kept separate from specimens held in the Collection.
AbelhaMoz Honey
Floral source: Not product-specifically stated in the sources consulted. A 2023 feature reports that much of the project’s output is described as honeydew honey, but this was not verified against a product label or lot-specific analysis.
Documented origin: Inhambane Province, Mozambique
Origin detail: Region
A public AbelhaMoz promotional profile states that “AbelhaMoz honey is harvested in the Inhambane province in Mozambique.” This supports province-level origin only; it does not establish Quissico, Zavala District, a particular forest, or a particular floral source as the origin of a specific jar.
People
People connected to the work
- Steve Joubert Founder and CEO
Practices
How they work
- Ecocert’s live public directory lists ABELHAMOZ under its Organic Agriculture Europe certification category, with bee products as the listed product category.
- The project states that it uses managed Langstroth-hive nodes and conservation-friendly harvesting approaches in collaboration with communities and beekeepers.
- The producer’s promotional material describes hive nodes situated in natural forests and tended by local node keepers, with honey processed, bottled, and shipped through its facilities.