Cashew Industry News

The latest news from the African cashew industry.

Global demand for cashews is booming. How Ghana can take advantage to create jobs

21 Sep, 2021

The global cashew industry has grown rapidly over the last decade, driven by the increasing consumption of cashew nuts around the world. And the market for raw cashews is ...

Supply of Relief Items to Cashew Processors in Ghana

27 Aug, 2021

Background

The Competitive Cashew initiative (ComCashew) aims to strengthen the competitiveness of African Cashew processors to reduce poverty amongst small-scale farmers in its project countries: Benin, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Mozambique and Sierra-Leonne. The African Cashew Alliance (ACA) an implementing partner of ComCashew has been...

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COVID RELIEF - BURKINA FASO

20 Aug, 2021

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Background

L’Initiative pour la compétitivité du Cajou (ComCashew) vise à renforcer la compétitivité des transformateurs africains de cajou afin de réduire la pauvreté parmi les petits exploitants agricoles dans les pays où le projet est mis...

ACA President commends Nigerian cashew farmers for quality nuts

27 Jul, 2021

Babatola Faseru, president of the African Cashew Alliance (ACA), has commended cashew farmers in the country for their efforts in improving the quality of Nigeria’s cashew nuts.

According to him, the quality of cashew nuts in Nigeria and Africa generally has seen a great improvement this year, attributing it to the good work by the farmers.

Speaking at the ACA’s Global Market...

Côte d’Ivoire : les transformateurs d’anacarde sollicitent une aide pour se renforcer face à la concurrence asiatique

8 Jul, 2021

En Côte d’Ivoire, la libéralisation des filières visant des marchés d’exportation a été l’une des réformes majeures sur la dernière décennie. Toutefois, si elle a permis l’arrivée de nouveaux opérateurs surtout étrangers, cette démarche a...

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Non-functional Tree Crop Authority biting industry – Cashew processor

2 Jul, 2021

According to cashew processors, further delay in making the Authority functional will among others bundle out the few surviving cashew processing... read more read more

With domestic value addition, Côte d’Ivoire is finally cashing in on its cashews

2 Jul, 2021

In the city of Bondoukou, located in the Zanzan District of north-eastern Côte d’Ivoire, only a short distance from the country’s border with Ghana, traditional straw-roofed huts have given way to houses made from cement and covered with...

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Le marché mondial du cajou se redessine au profit de l’Afrique de l’Ouest

25 Jun, 2021

Le marché mondial du cajou est en pleine croissance. Sur les cinq dernières années, la consommation mondiale d’amandes de cajou a grimpé de près de 20%. Ce sont presque un million de tonnes supplémentaires de cet oléagineux consommé par...

Guinea-Bissau’s cashew farmers survive tough times

22 Jun, 2021

Government-set prices for the crop have been slashed by close to a third since last year, after the coronavirus pandemic disrupted the supply chain.

Since the start of the year, cashew farmers in Guinea-Bissau had also been grappling with a tax for the first time - at 15 CFA francs per kilo....