The Succès Village Savings and Loan Association (VSLA) group was formed in 2019 in the village of Aboudé, Côte d’Ivoire. Every Sunday, forty women meet in the BECIDA cooperative director’s garden to pool their savings and take out loans. During these meetings, they share personal experiences and offer each other advice and…
Category Archives: Côte d’Ivoire
From Slash-and-Burn to Sustainable: How Biochar is Changing Cocoa Farming in Côte d’Ivoire
ETG | Beyond Beans is preparing to run pilot projects to test the applicability of biochar in live field sites. Our ultimate goal is to expand this project to circularise coffee projects in Uganda, cashew projects in Mozambique, and cocoa projects in Côte d’Ivoire, thereby reducing waste, providing carbon insetting, and minimising the environmental impact of the agricultural sector.
Côte d’Ivoire
Côte d’Ivoire is the world’s largest producer of cocoa (the second largest is Ghana and the third largest is Indonesia). Beyond Beans has been active in Côte d’Ivoire since 2019. At the end of 2024, our projects reached around 50,000 farmers across 52 cooperatives. Key Focus Areas: In Côte d’Ivoire we are working with NestléContinue reading “Côte d’Ivoire”
Cookstoves
Country: Côte d’Ivoire In Côte d’Ivoire, Beyond Beans aims to stimulate the commercial distribution of improved cookstoves to support forest conservation and the livelihoods of farming communities. These stoves significantly decrease household air pollution, help households save on fuel expenditure, and they reduced the time spent collecting firewood. The project, known as ProcarBOOH (Booh meansContinue reading “Cookstoves”
EnRoute
Country: Côte d’Ivoire & Togo Funded by the Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO) and implemented by ETG | Beyond Beans in partnership with KIT Institute and Oxfam Novib, the 4-year EnRoute project was designed to find practical, cost-effective ways to support farmers in Côte d’Ivoire and Togo towards a Living Income. To date, increased pricing mechanismsContinue reading “EnRoute”
Cocoa Fruit Lab
Country: Côte d’IvoireKey Objective: Generating additional sources of income for cocoa-growing communities and minimising waste. Our cocoa juice project is working to turn the juice from the cocoa fruit into a commercially viable product that can help rural farming communities generate an additional income stream. The project is already raising farmers’ incomes by 10%, with potentialContinue reading “Cocoa Fruit Lab”
Hana River Eco-Corridor
Country: Côte d’Ivoire The Tai National Park in Côte d’Ivoire is home to some of the last remaining areas of primary rainforest in West Africa. We are working with cocoa farmers who live along the Hana river to create a 20-metre barrier of protected forest along the riverbanks. Forest areas, especially along rivers, promote biodiversity,Continue reading “Hana River Eco-Corridor”
Raising the Bar: Cocoa and Gender Equality in Côte d’Ivoire
Bringing together actors from across the cocoa sector, the Cocoa Fruit Lab creates the first entirely women-owned micro-factory in Côte d’Ivoire to produce sustainable cocoa, speciality chocolate and cocoa juice.