by Christian Dahm, ACA Managing Director
My visit to Anatrans on 21 May 2013, once again confirmed that great things are possible in the cashew industry in Africa. When I joined ACA in late 2008, Anatrans and Genese were still in start-up mode, developing relations with farmer groups, promoting quality and post-harvest handling in a place that was rather known for poor quality cashew nuts and farmers obtaining poor returns from selling to raw nut traders only. Processing cashew locally seemed like a remote ambition and Anatrans and Genese like schoolboys with a lot to learn....
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On April 26, USAID officially awarded the African Cashew Alliance (ACA) with a Global Development Alliance (GDA) grant. The funds will support a two-year program entitled “Leveraging Cashew Business for Poverty Reduction.” Within the two-year time span of the project, ACA’s work is expected to result in additional income of $10M for rural communities and create 3,200...
The National Cashew Association of Nigeria (NCAN) organized a hugely successful Access to Finance Conference on Tuesday 23rd April 2013 in Lagos, Nigeria. Present at the well attended event were major stakeholders along the value chain in the Nigerian cashew sector, as well as major financial institutions including NEXIM Bank, Ecobank and Fidelity Bank.
