Region: West Africa
Youth empowered to set up eco-friendly agribusinesses in Nigeria
With the aging oil palm smallholder farmers who are mostly in the rural parts of the country, Solidaridad is encouraging…
27 September 2021
Sustainable Palm Oil Programme in Côte d’Ivoire Restores Forest Land
The project, which ran between 2017 and 2021, focused on improving smallholder farmers’ knowledge of Best Environmental Practices with a…
24 September 2021
A boost for community food resilience and nutrition security in Sierra Leone
More than 1,500 household members including smallholder women farmers, children and youth in communities across the Moyamba, Bo and Kenema…
21 September 2021
Moving away the smoke screen in front of the business case for cocoa farmers in West Africa
Nico Roozen's most recent blog - composed in direct dialogue with our colleagues from Ghana and Ivory Coast - is…
02 September 2021
Effort to RECLAIM Sustainability! in Ghana Launched
Ghana has launched the RECLAIM Sustainability! programme, which seeks to foster inclusive sustainable supply chains in which the interests, voices…
26 August 2021
Roundtable asks to act now to mend the damaging cocoa slavery slur on West Africa
A roundtable on cocoa hosted by Solidaridad West Africa ended with Nico Roozen calling on the governments of Ghana and…
04 August 2021
Rural Service Centres: Transforming the palm oil sector in Ghana through investing in smallholder farmers
The palm oil sector in Ghana has great potential to increase production on the existing 330,000 hectares of oil palm…
26 July 2021
Promoting social inclusion in oil palm sector through multi-stakeholder platforms
Solidaridad has initiated a multi-stakeholder platform to encourage the inclusion of women, youth, migrants, and persons with disabilities along the…
23 July 2021
Efforts to popularize farmer-friendly tree crops policies launched in Sierra Leone
The popularization of three national tree crops policies, developed by the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry in Sierra Leone in…
Promoting responsible use of mercury in mining
The use of mercury in mining remains a tremendous challenge for the sector worldwide. The majority of artisanal and small-scale…
