In M’Brimbo, in the lush Agnéby-Tiassa region of Côte d’Ivoire, the Société Coopérative Équitable du Bandama (SCEB) brings together 366 producers, including 57 women, who have taken the plunge into organic farming. But there is no shortage of challenges.
Discover the impactful review of the Trade for Development Centre’s (TDC) initiatives enhancing coffee producer organisations across Africa.
Disarming Design from Palestine is a contemporary design label that aims to support Palestinian makers, raise awareness, and share alternative narratives about life in Palestine. More than a design brand, it is a movement that uses creativity as a tool for resistance and solidarity. Just before the 2025 edition of the Belgian Fair Trade Week, Enabel’s Trade for Development Centre met with Annelys de Vet, co-founder of the project, and Ibrahim Muhtadi, an architect and designer from Gaza.
We are seeking expert coaches in marketing, financial and business management or HREDD that are available for field assignments in 2026 and 2027. Please find the tender here.
On October 1, Côte d’Ivoire’s President Alassane Ouatara himself announced that the farm gate cocoa price for the 2025-2026 season would be 2,800 CFA francs/kg, a substantial increase of 56% compared to the 1,800 CFA francs of last year during the same period.
While measures such as group certification offer opportunities for their producers, the regulation also poses significant challenges, including increased costs and the artificial division of some cooperatives.
Supported, among others, by Enabel’s Trade for Development Centre (TDC), the cooperation Kawa Kanzururu is reviving a coffee supply chain that was abandoned in the 1990s due to armed conflict and a lack of investors in the region.
At the foot of Mount Rwenzori, in North Kivu (Democratic Republic of the Congo), the cooperative Kawa Kanzururu – meaning ‘coffee of the eternal snows’ – is transforming the coffee and cocoa industry with the support of Enabel’s Trade for Development Center (TDC).
25 coaches of both Enabel’s Trade for Development Centre programme and the programme on sustainable cocoa in Ivory Coast came together in Ivory Coast in May 2025 for the coaching days.
TDC aims to strengthen the capacities of MSME and producer organisations in terms of sustainability and decent work, management and marketing. The aim is to increase sales and revenues through sustainable organisational strengthening, better management and improved access to markets. Interested? Apply before July 22th!!
