African Cashew Alliance

The African Cashew Alliance (ACA) is organizing Nigerian Cashew Week at the International Institute for Tropical Agriculture (IITA) in Ibadan from 2-5 March 2010. The event will showcase the numerous business and investment opportunities cashew presents for the Nigerian economy, from improved raw nut quality to processing efficiencies as well as marketing and finance innovations for the sector. It will feature a training for bankers on financing opportunities in the sector and a training on cashew processing management and efficiencies. Participants will also have the opportunity to visit Olam’s Cashew processing plant in Ilorin, a world-class facility, the biggest in West Africa.

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view program here   Nigeria Cashew Week draft program 09-02-10 92.90 Kb

The ACA Executive Committee has announced its decision to award the holding of the 2010 ACA Annual Conference to Mozambique! The event will take place in September 2010 in the country’s beautiful capital, Maputo. The dates will be announced by 1 February 2010.

The decision came after the Committee examined and rated three excellent proposals according to criteria published on the ACA website in November 2009.

On its way to becoming a global cashew powerhouse, Mozambique has seen a sharp increase in the processing of cashews over the past five years.  Today, the country’s industry processes the highest amount of cashew nuts in Africa. The ACA Conference will showcase how strategic alliances between farmers, processors, government and development agencies can realize quick wins for the African cashew sector. Business2business meetings will match potential partners in individual meetings, including investors, buyers, service suppliers and traders of raw and processed cashew. The Conference program will feature visits to world-class processing facilities as well as offers for trips to beautiful beach resorts and safari excursions in one of the many breathtaking National Parks in the region (Mozambique has a number of National Parks and the world-famous Kruger National Park is a 90 minute drive from Maputo).

Mark your calendars, bring your families and see you in Maputo!

In collaboration with the African Cashew Initiative and the Benin Ministry of Agriculture, the ACA organized a workshop to help cashew industry stakeholder prepare for the next cashew season (February - June) and elect the ACA National Committee for Benin. Almost 100 cashew producers, buyers, processors, exporters, and service providers formulated priorities for the 2010 cashew season and presented recommendations on improving the sector to the newly elected national committee.

view report on workshop here Atelier ACA Cotonou 21-12-09 _report_ 74.43 Kb

More than 80 cashew sector stakeholders came togerther to share ideas and to network at the Ghana Cashew Day in Sunyani on 10 December 2009.

Researchers presented the latest trends in cashew cultivation and farmers engaged traders in a discussion on the market for cashew in Ghana and worldwide. The event was also an opportunity for ACA’s implementing partners of the African Cashew Initiative (ACi), GTZ, TechnoServe and FairMatchSupport to present their specific activities in the cashew value chain to the industry stakeholders. Farmers, processors, traders and service providers elected their representatives to the ACA National committee.

The Ministry of Agriculture's Cashew Development Project was elected National ACA Representative and the trading company, West African Markets Link (WAML) , Deputy National ACA Representative at the first working session of the committee. 

  view  report on the event here  Ghana Cashew Day Report _2_ jl 1.38 Mb