Region: West Africa
Solidaridad West Africa training partner in Cargill's Sustainable Cocoa Program in Ghana
Cargill's cocoa & chocolate business – in close cooperation with the Ghana Cocoa Board – is expanding its Cargill Sustainable…
21 August 2014
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Solidaridad West Africa: Millions ploughed into Oil Palm sector
Accra, Ghana. Solidaridad West Africa signed a 4 year agreement with The Netherlands Embassy in Accra for the development of a…
West Africa: First Aid training for small scale miners in Ghana
Over 1 million people are engaged in small scale mining of gold, diamond and quarry industries in Ghana. In the…
20 August 2014
Exchange and learn: West Africa visits India on Better Cotton Initiative
A team of four exchange delegates from Mali in West Africa, including farmers and the National Coordinator of the Association…
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West Africa: Ghana smallholders to implement Oil Palm Best Management Practice
The oil palm tree although very productive and indigenous to West Africa remains under-utilized on many farms in the region.…
Solidaridad cocoa programme in West Africa unites Ivorian farmers
The cocoa sector in West Africa which collectively supplies more than 60 percent of the world’s cocoa, has been a…
West Africa: Ghana cocoa farmers receive first UTZ incentive bonuses
Cocoa certification has started to pay dividends to cocoa farmers in the Western North cocoa region of Ghana who received…
Mali project receives Better Cotton prize
The implementation of Better Cotton by Solidaridad in the Mali project began in collaboration with cotton company, Compagnie malienne pour…
Integrating Ghanaian palm oil smallholders into global markets
While oil palm is indigenous to West Africa, the region produces only six percent of the global palm oil which…
Multimedia exhibition for the love of chocolate in the Amsterdam Maritime Museum
Kadir van Lohuizen and Solidaridad today launched the multimedia exhibition ‘For the love of chocolate’, which will run from 20…
