Commodity Hub Côte d'Ivoire

Overview

The aim of the project is to promote environmentally friendly production methods and to ensure long-term stable incomes for farming households.

Key activities of the project include:

1. Building farmer capacity: Providing trainings on sustainable farming practices in collaboration with the national extension service provider ANADER.
2. Improving transparency and traceability across supply chains: Cooperating with private sector actors to support efforts to enhance transparency and traceability, including implementing measures to ensure that no deforestation is linked to raw material sourcing.
3. Cooperating with public agencies (e.g., OIPR, SODEFOR): Monitoring forest areas, conducting community sensitization campaigns, promoting agroforestry systems, and strengthening climate change resilience.
4. Promoting local value addition: Creating new products and additional income opportunities, e.g., through processing by-products such as transforming rubber seeds into biodiesel or cocoa husks into biogas and biofertilizer.
5. Fostering economic diversification: Supporting smallholder farmers in integrating alternative income-generating activities into their farms.
6. Empowering women: Providing financial literacy programs and support for launching new income-generating activities.
7. Implementing international due diligence and compliance efforts: Rolling out “FIT for FAIR” in Côte d’Ivoire, including capacity development on the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) and the EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (EU CSDDD).

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