• Supporting horticultural certification – the success story of the KLO Mango Farmers & Processors Association in Ghana

    • 06/05/2025
    • Posted by: Sandra Borma
    • Category: News
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    In many countries, COLEAD’s Fit For Market Plus (FFM+) programme supports farmers and agricultural organisations in their efforts to adopt sustainable practices and achieve international certification. The recent experience of the KLO Mango Farmers & Processors Association (Klomangfpa) in Ghana is a concrete example of the impact of this support. Klomangfpa successfully renews its GLOBALG.A.P. certification This achievement is the result of an ongoing commitment to continuous improvement and adherence to high standards of sustainable horticultural production. As part of… +
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  • MANGO-SO in Burkina Faso: a business success story based on the development and certification of processed coconuts and mangoes

    • 02/07/2024
    • Posted by: Sandra Borma
    • Category: News
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    MANGO-SO in Burkina Faso: a business success story based on the development and certification of processed coconuts and mangoes.   MANGO-SO, founded in 2001, is a Burkina Faso company specialising in the drying of mangoes and coconuts. 90% of its dried mango production is exported directly to the European Union (Germany, Sweden, Italy), while the rest is sold locally to another company for marketing. The entire production of dried coconuts is destined for Germany. MANGO-SO is HACCP and BIO certified… +
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  • GUINEA STRENGTHENS PHYTOSANITARY CONTROL TO IMPROVE ACCESS TO AGRI-FOOD MARKETS

    • 30/04/2024
    • Posted by: Sandra Borma
    • Category: News
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    GUINEA STRENGTHENS PHYTOSANITARY CONTROL TO IMPROVE ACCESS TO AGRI-FOOD MARKETS   The project “Strengthening the phytosanitary control and certification system in Guinea” launched in 2019 and funded by the Standards and Trade Development Facility (STDF), was the subject of a closing workshop in Conakry on 24 April. It was an opportunity to present and welcome the results and positive impact of the project. In particular, the National Directorate of Plant Protection and Stored Foods (DNPV-DS) has benefited from capacity building… +
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  • Sustainable mango production in Mali

    • 10/04/2024
    • Posted by: Sandra Borma
    • Category: News
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    Sustainable mango production in Mali   As part of its efforts to increase the competitiveness through the adoption of sustainable practices by Malian companies, COLEAD organised two intensive training sessions on GlobalGAP Integrated Farm Assurance (IFA) version 6 in Bamako, Mali, as part of the Fit For Market Plus programme. These training sessions, organised in response to growing demand from local companies exporting mangoes to the European Union, aimed to bring food safety and sustainable management practices in line with… +
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  • SOWIT, CIRAD & COLEAD in Ghana : a partnership to digitize the Mango value chain

    • 22/05/2023
    • Posted by: Sandra Borma
    • Category: Corp EN, Ghana, News
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    Measuring and predicting yields are major challenges in agriculture. The uncertainty of such evaluations has multiple repercussions that can affect the development of entire value chains. HPW Fresh & Dry Ltd., the largest dried-fruit producer in West Africa, requested support from COLEAD to resolve one of its most critical pain points: the lack of methods to estimate yields of its partner mango farmers reliably and efficiently. The company’s goal was to be able to accurately size its supply chain and… +
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  • Côte d’Ivoire : new plant protection product for mango fruit flies

    • 24/02/2023
    • Posted by: Gaetan Dermien
    • Category: Côte d'Ivoire, News
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    Fruit flies remain a major challenge for West African mango exports to the EU. For species classified as ‘union quarantine pests’, fruits containing larva cannot enter the EU, and infested consignments will be rejected by the European phytosanitary services. The problem facing producers is compounded by the limited range of products authorised for their control. In a step towards overcoming this challenge, a new plant protection product has recently been registered in Côte d’Ivoire and will be available to producers… +
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  • October 2022, review of the COLEACP mission to Cameroon

    • 12/12/2022
    • Posted by: Sandra Borma
    • Category: Cameroon
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    A team from COLEACP – Margaux Muyle (Senior Project Officer), Dorothée Vandeleene (Project Officer – Training Department) and Gisèle Mizero (Project Officer – Technical Assistance) – visited Cameroon from 5 to 14 October 2022 for the closure of the “Project to improve the sanitary and phytosanitary quality of Penja pepper to promote its access to international markets” (STDF/PG/593). The COLEACP team took this opportunity to review the actions carried out with the existing partner-beneficiaries of the STDF SPS programme, to… +
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  • Three new plant protection products are now available for mango in West Africa

    • 05/12/2022
    • Posted by: Gaetan Dermien
    • Category: Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Chad, Corp EN, Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal
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    Three new plant protection products (PPPs) have been granted a Provisional Authorization of Sale (APV) with the support of COLEACP’s Fit For Market SPS programme at the 6th Extraordinary Session of the Sahelian Committee for Pesticides (SPC) in October 2022. This means that they will be available to producers for the 2023 season in the nine West African countries covered by the SPC: Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Chad, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal and Gambia. The products are for use… +
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  • News Digest: Agri-food Markets, Production and Trade

    • 28/10/2022
    • Posted by: Gaetan Dermien
    • Category: ACP EN, News
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    Agri-food Africa Changes to EU and GB pesticide maximum residue levels Following the departure of the UK from the EU, Fresh Produce Exporters Association of Kenya’s (FPEAK) monitoring of pesticide regulations now covers maximum residue level (MRL) changes in both the EU and Great Britain (GB), enabling FPEAK to keep members and partner-beneficiaries up to date. During the period April-June 2022, notifications of MRL changes were issued for flutianil (EU), sulfoxaflor (GB), cyantraniliprole (GB) and cinmethylin (GB). The EU and… +
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  • West Africa: Identifying and assessing mango waste

    • 17/03/2022
    • Posted by: Gaetan Dermien
    • Category: Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, Mali, News, Senegal
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    COLEACP Training Project Officer Sami Chauvet shares his experience of capacity building in waste reduction and valorisation using the example of the mango sector. Good waste management in the mango industry can lead to increased profits as well as the reduction of waste. This requires the identification of mango losses and waste by production and packing station managers. View the introductory video (in French) here In a typical training session, a team of local experts first provide distance learning on… +
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