Business was cracking at the nut industry’s biggest event of the year, the International Nut & Dried Fruit Congress (INC) Conference in Barcelona, Spain, at the end of May. ACA’s leadership met with traders, buyers, roasters, national councils, regulating bodies, certifying bodies and other association representative, ACA presented the organization, its objectives, and discussed potential areas of collaboration. The primary goal of attending this event was for ACA to promote cashew shelled in Africa on the international market, and both Leonard Garden and Christian Dahm, ACA Managing...
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The Usibras Group, an ACA member and one of Brazil’s leading cashew businesses, will break ground this month on a $15M cashew processing factory in Ghana. Since being introduced to the African market by ACA in 2008, Usibras has gradually become involved in business across the continent, exporting raw cashew nuts from Ghana, Benin, Cote d’Ivoire, and Burkina Faso. Now, Usibras will further establish themselves as a major West African processor, with their 35,000MT capacity facility to be built in Prampram, 50 km east of Accra. The project is spearheaded by Tarciso Falcao, Director of...
by Kwadwo Asare
On May 17, 2013, Anatrans became the third company to be officially certified under the ACA Quality and Sustainability Seal. Anatrans, a medium-capacity factory located in Bobo, Burkina Faso, was assessed by ACA Seal Coordinator Peter Nyarko and Food Safety Expert Jim Giles. Nyarko and Giles completed audits in the two critical disciplines: Food Safety and Social Compliance. Anatrans passed both audits with strong results, and is now the first African processor to achieve Seal status in 2013.
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On May 17, 2013, Anatrans became the third company to be officially certified under the ACA Quality and Sustainability Seal. Anatrans, a medium-capacity factory located in Bobo, Burkina Faso, was assessed by ACA Seal Coordinator Peter Nyarko and Food Safety Expert Jim Giles. Nyarko and Giles completed audits in the two critical disciplines: Food Safety and Social Compliance. Anatrans passed both audits with strong results, and is now the first African processor to achieve Seal status in 2013.
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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....
Two members of the ACA Seal team, Peter Kojo Nyarko, Seal Coordinator and Jim Giles, Seal Advisor Food Safety and Quality Expert were in five African countries earlier this month on Seal-related business. The three week trip saw the pair launch the ACA Quality and Sustainability Seal program in two factories, SOPELGUI Agro Industrie in Guinea and SITA S.A. in Cote D’Ivoire. The enrollment of these factories onto the Seal program further increases the number of factories in Africa that are implementing the ACA SEAL program to 12....
This month, AfricasheW320 features the 2nd world economic report from Beacon Economics. Chris Thornberg, founder of Beacon Economics, was the keynote speaker at the 2012 ACA Conference in Benin, where he discussed cashew in a global economic setting.
In the June analysis below, Beacon explains lagging economic growth in Africa, the resilience of the US economy, and the expansion of the agriculture industry in early 2013.
Leading economic indicators suggest that Africa, like much of the rest of the world, continues to struggle with slowing economic growth.
...By Ann-Christin Berger, Aci
“Bzzzzz, bzzzzz, bzzzz” is the buzzing noise you will hear when visiting some of the many cashew farms in Ghana and Benin where farmers have adopted a new, yet promising activity for income diversification: Beekeeping.
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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 Usibras Group, an ACA member and one of Brazil’s leading cashew businesses, will break ground this month on a $15M cashew processing factory in Ghana. Since being introduced to the African market by ACA in 2008, Usibras has gradually become involved in business across the continent, exporting raw cashew nuts from Ghana, Benin, Cote d’Ivoire, and Burkina Faso. Now, Usibras will further establish themselves as a major West African processor, with their 35,000MT capacity facility to be built in Prampram, 50 km east of Accra. The project is spearheaded by Tarciso Falcao, Director of...
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