Region: West Africa
Dutch ambassador applauds Solidaridad for facilitating access to finance for smallholder cocoa farmers
Under the Cocoa Rehabilitation and Intensification Programme, Solidaridad linked 7,000 farmers to four financial institutions to enable them access finance…
16 March 2022
Reclaiming the essence of sustainability towards systemic change
The world faces innumerable challenges, unprecedented in scale and the way in which they mutually reinforce one another. Smallholder farmers,…
15 March 2022
West Africa 2021
In 2021, Solidaridad trained 103,472 producers and workers to improve their production practices, out of which 36,973 are producing sustainably…
31 December 2021
No need to question the relevance of ‘fair pricing’
Nico Roozen analyzes and responds to a recently published report of Wageningen University & Research and Mondelez International, which examines…
21 December 2021
Roadmap to a Sustainable Cocoa Sector Launched in Liberia
A Roadmap to a Sustainable Cocoa Sector in Liberia has been launched in Monrovia with a call on all actors…
20 December 2021
The World Bank Touts Solidaridad’s Community-Focused Climate Action in Ghana
The World Bank has expressed high satisfaction over Solidaridad’s implementation of the community-focused, climate-oriented intervention, the Ghana Dedicated Grant Mechanism…
Supporting Small and Medium Businesses to build a resilient oil palm sector in Côte d’Ivoire
Solidaridad, under the Access to Finance and Enterprise Development component of the second phase of the Sustainable West Africa Palm…
Hybrid oil palm seedlings to improve yields in Nigeria
Solidaridad has established 16 oil palm nurseries in four states to replace aged and moribund oil palm trees. This is…
18 December 2021
Empowering local communities to undertake own-initiated development actions
To ensure that communities advocate for their own development, Solidaridad, through the Cocoa Life programme, has been empowering and supporting…
Efforts to promote mercury-free gold take off in Ghana
As the European Union policy on due diligence in supply chains continues to progress, and companies and consumers' interest in…
