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.
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.
Enabel’s Trade for Development Centre (TDC) implements a multi-year support programme for agricultural producer organisations (POs) and SMEs in Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana but also in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), and Uganda. The programme operates through two complementary modalities that can be deployed independently or combined to suit each partner’s specific maturity and needs.
The European Parliament and Council have reached a provisional political agreement on the Omnibus l simplification package, making a pivotal shift in the EU’s corporate sustainability framework.
Driven by the new “Competitiveness Compass” and the Draghi Report’s call to unlock productivity, this agreement fundamentally alters the scope and obligations under the CSRD and CSDDD.
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.
