Côte d’Ivoire: Local beliefs challenge women’s access to land
At 64, Elise Goueu has defied gender norms and achieved what many women in Ivory Coast consider impossible. Not only […]
Côte d’Ivoire: Farmers adopt new techniques to increase cocoa production in the face of climate change
It’s Sunday evening and the sun is beginning to set. Patrice Assalé is a cocoa farmer from Apprompronou, in the […]
Côte d’Ivoire: Women plantain growers create marketing co-operative
This morning, Houphouët-Marie Thérèse Soro is meeting with her fellow co-operative presidents in the Bongouanou region of Ivory Coast. Mrs. […]
Côte d’Ivoire: Cocoa farmers plant shade trees to adapt to climate change
The sun is already high in the sky and burning fiercely. Cocoa farmer Souleymane Bamba is in his field in […]
Côte d’Ivoire: Chocolate companies contribute to deforestation by buying cocoa from protected areas (Jeune Afrique, RFI, and The Guardian)
The signs of deforestation are easy to spot. Salam Sawadougou works his four-hectare plot In Côte d’Ivoire’s Mount Tia protected […]
Young couple creates web series to make farming ‘cool’ (This is Africa)
Before they met, Inoussa Maïga and his wife Nawsheen Hosenally were both agriculture bloggers with a passion for using communications […]
Côte d’Ivoire: Farmers profit from bird’s eye chili
Chili plants stretch as far as the eye can see in Claude Memel’s field. This is his “private kingdom,” and […]
Cote d’Ivoire: Spouses and partners in poultry business (AgribusinessTV)
Hervé Domagni walks around a warehouse filled with thousands of chickens. He pours feed from a metal bucket into feeders […]
Côte d’Ivoire: Government introduces cocoa label to increase value (Africanews)
Côte d’Ivoire has introduced a “made in Côte d’Ivoire” label in an effort to increase the value and visibility of […]
Cote d’Ivoire: Fraud in the cacao industry (Fratmat)
Smuggling, tax evasion, restrictive tariffs, and corruption are being blamed for the Cote d’Ivoire cacao industry’s loss of 2,500 billion […]