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.
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.
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.
On 5 and 19 February, the Walloon Fair Trade Awards were awarded to two schools, Actions Intégrées de Développement Hainaut-Centre and Collège Saint-Stanislas in Mons.
In a context where the European Commission wants to specify when “fair trade” terms may be used from now on, Commerce Equitable France has published
The Trade for Development Centre supports campaigns to promote more sustainable agriculture in various African countries. This is the case of the National Week of Ecological Agriculture in Benin, which aims to disseminate knowledge, good practices and innovations in agroecology.
At the end of November, the fourth annual National Fair Trade Days (JNCE) took place, an initiative of the Burkina Faso fair trade platform.
This initiative, which was funded by Enabel’s TDC, was desperately needed to tackle the many challenges in the sector and to find ways out of the ongoing crisis.
With a history stretching back more than 250 years, Beyers Koffie, Belgium’s largest coffee roaster, is determined to move with the times. At the end of 2025, the company will be one of the first in the world to inaugurate a 100% electric industrial roasting line.
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.
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.
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.
On 5 and 19 February, the Walloon Fair Trade Awards were awarded to two schools, Actions Intégrées de Développement Hainaut-Centre and Collège Saint-Stanislas in Mons.
In a context where the European Commission wants to specify when “fair trade” terms may be used from now on, Commerce Equitable France has published
The Trade for Development Centre supports campaigns to promote more sustainable agriculture in various African countries. This is the case of the National Week of Ecological Agriculture in Benin, which aims to disseminate knowledge, good practices and innovations in agroecology.
At the end of November, the fourth annual National Fair Trade Days (JNCE) took place, an initiative of the Burkina Faso fair trade platform.
This initiative, which was funded by Enabel’s TDC, was desperately needed to tackle the many challenges in the sector and to find ways out of the ongoing crisis.
With a history stretching back more than 250 years, Beyers Koffie, Belgium’s largest coffee roaster, is determined to move with the times. At the end of 2025, the company will be one of the first in the world to inaugurate a 100% electric industrial roasting line.
