Trade for Development Centre is a programme of Enabel, the Belgian development agency.
We believe that fair and sustainable trade are a way to decrease poverty. It gives smallholders in the South the opportunity to develop in a sustainable way. We work around three main themes: producer support, sharing information and raising awareness.
Here you will find our most recent publications in order of appearance. The last published will be in the front.
Enabel’s Trade for Development Centre met Ginette Kouamé, director of the Ecakoog agricultural cooperative, at the Chocoa trade fair. She shared her vision and the challenges faced by an organisation that, in less than 15 years, has become a major player in the cocoa industry in Côte d’Ivoire.
Created in 2019, the Cacao Okapi agricultural cooperative now brings together more than 400 producers and is gradually positioning itself as a credible player in sustainable specialty cocoa in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
During the Chocoa trade fair, we spoke with Gerald Bagonza from the Bwamba Cooperative Union (BCU) in Uganda about the challenges, successes and ambitions of this young cocoa producers’ union.
In the landscape of modern global commerce, Human Rights and Environmental Due Diligence (HREDD) has become a critical pillar for building resilient and responsible supply chains.
Yeyasso’s bold leap into fine flavour cocoa turns a small Ivorian village into the testing ground for a new kind of excellence—organic, meticulously fermented, and fully traceable. Their beans earned a 7.7/10 excellence score, hinting at a quiet revolution in Côte d’Ivoire’s cocoa landscape.
In Côte d’Ivoire, cocoa has historically been associated with large volumes of production (“bulk”) rather than the niche market for “specialty” quality. However, a real taste revolution is underway.
