Region: West Africa
Providing lifelines for local communities through solar-powered boreholes
Through the Ghana Dedicated Grant Mechanism project, with funding from the World Bank, Solidaridad has supported 37 communities with solar-powered…
13 October 2021
‘Seeing is doing’ – How smallholder farmers in Nigeria are living this reality
In Nigeria, smallholder fruits and vegetable farmers are adapting climate-smart agricultural practices following weeks of observations in field demonstration farms.…
Solidaridad Calls on Corporations to Integrate Social Enterprises into their Supply Chains
New research from Acumen and IKEA Social Enterprise, with support from Solidaridad, explains how corporations can build social enterprises into…
05 October 2021
Youth empowered to set up eco-friendly agribusinesses in Nigeria
With the aging oil palm smallholder farmers who are mostly in the rural parts of the country, Solidaridad is encouraging…
27 September 2021
Sustainable Palm Oil Programme in Côte d’Ivoire Restores Forest Land
The project, which ran between 2017 and 2021, focused on improving smallholder farmers’ knowledge of Best Environmental Practices with a…
24 September 2021
A boost for community food resilience and nutrition security in Sierra Leone
More than 1,500 household members including smallholder women farmers, children and youth in communities across the Moyamba, Bo and Kenema…
21 September 2021
Moving away the smoke screen in front of the business case for cocoa farmers in West Africa
Nico Roozen's most recent blog - composed in direct dialogue with our colleagues from Ghana and Ivory Coast - is…
02 September 2021
Effort to RECLAIM Sustainability! in Ghana Launched
Ghana has launched the RECLAIM Sustainability! programme, which seeks to foster inclusive sustainable supply chains in which the interests, voices…
26 August 2021
Roundtable asks to act now to mend the damaging cocoa slavery slur on West Africa
A roundtable on cocoa hosted by Solidaridad West Africa ended with Nico Roozen calling on the governments of Ghana and…
04 August 2021
Rural Service Centres: Transforming the palm oil sector in Ghana through investing in smallholder farmers
The palm oil sector in Ghana has great potential to increase production on the existing 330,000 hectares of oil palm…
26 July 2021
