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Demystifying Strawberry Production in Senegal
Production
A newspaper to inform and train farmers
Cameroon
Coconut chips in different flavours
Cameroon
Wassa-Wassa, the yam couscous
Benin
At the farm “Ten chicks”
Burkina Faso
The journey of a sweet potato champion
Production
Atoukpou Burger, the Ivorian sandwich
Manhéni KOULÉON is a food recipe creator. Through his enterprise, “Speed Miam Service”, he adapts traditional dishes to modern cuisine. Manhéni is passionate about food and wanted to come up with a dish that is traditional, but has a modern twist to it.
Ollasset leaves the medical field for organic agriculture
Ollasset Djoro AHOUO is a young entrepreneur in Cote d’Ivoire. In 2009, she leaves the faculty of medicine to study agriculture. Today, she produces and markets organic fruits and vegetables. Her parents’ dream was for her to become a doctor. But her dream
Coffee with African flavours
Lamine BAKAYOKO holds a degree in agro-ecology. In 2010, he ventured into the coffee roasting business, which is declining in Cote d’Ivoire. Lamine had a business plan already when he was at school. But he soon realised that the project was too big and no on
Roméo at the rescue of the coconut sector
Roméo DOU, 37 years, is a microbiologist from Cote d’Ivoire. In addition to his vermiculture activities, he produces virgin coconut oil, thanks to an artisanal process that he has put into place after several years of research. Romeo believes that raw mater
Local fruit jams to reduce wastage
Caroline HIEN did not know how to read or write. But this did not stop her from creating her own enterprise and succeed in her business of making local fruit jams. Caroline used to go to the market in Cote d’Ivoire and see that fruits were rotting there. For
Roméo at the school of earthworms
Roméo DOU, microbiologist, uses earthworms to produce natural and eco-friendly fertilizers from cocoa residues. Believing in an ideal, notably an agriculture which is eco-friendly, and succeeding to make a it business that is profitable. This is the exploit o
Chocolate “made in Cote d’Ivoire”
Axel Emmanuel, manager in a bank, left his job in 2010 to start the production of chocolate “Made in Cote d’Ivoire”. A winning choice. It all started from an observation. Cote d’Ivoire is the first global producer of cocoa, but very few people were inv
Crowdfunding, lessons from a success
Jean Ehui Delmas, an ICT for development specialist, ambitions to put ICTs at the service of agriculture. Faced by lack of finance, he organised a crowdfunding campaign on the Internet in 2015 that enabled him to raise fund to launch “Lôr Bouôr”, an inte