West Africa
Comprehensive, insightful and in-depth articles and news on agriculture, and developments from around West Africa.
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Ivory Coast traced 40% of cocoa for 2024/25 season
Côte d’Ivoire has traced 40% of its cocoa beans from the 2024/2025 season (October – September), according to the 2025…
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Burkina Faso halts all broiler chick imports
Burkina Faso temporarily suspended all imports of broiler chicks on Friday, 3rd October 2025, according to a statement from the…
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New investment empowers 600,000 African smallholders through local processing expansion
Robust International, a global trader of sesame and cashew nuts, is expanding its footprint in Africa with three new processing…
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Nigeria’s 2025/26 grain imports projected at 10.1M tons, up 10%
Nigeria’s grain imports are projected to reach nearly 10.1 million tons during the 2025/2026 marketing year, marking a 9.78% increase…
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Ivory Coast signs US$156.8 million farm deal with Italy’s BF Group
Ivory Coast Minister of Agriculture, Kobenan Kouassi Adjoumani, signed a €134 million (US$156.8 million) investment agreement with Italian agribusiness group…
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The AATB Program launches strategic wheat development initiative in Mauritania with ACSAD and ITFC
The Arab Africa Trade Bridges (AATB) Program has launched a strategic initiative in Mauritania to develop national capacity for wheat…
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Olam Agri and AGRA sign MoU to strengthen food and feed value chains in Africa
Olam Agri, a leading global agribusiness in food, feed and fibre, and AGRA, Africa’s leading partnership-driven institution for agricultural transformation,…
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Flour Mills of Nigeria meets all FG’s silo concession revitalisation conditions
Following the Federal Government’s ongoing drive for food self-sufficiency in Nigeria by combating food wastage through the silo concession revitalisation…
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