CASHEWNROL - Building the support strategy of the Dutch cooperation for the cashew processing sector through public-private stakeholders dialogue
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Main goals
As consultants to the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands (EKN) in Dar es Salaam and Dutch Enterprise Agency (RVO), Nitidæ will design their comprehensive 2026-2030 Cashew Strategy and roadmap. This strategy will also be fed by structured public-private and private-private platform meetings that Nitidæ will organize and facilitate. Priorities encompass the business-enabling environment, business development, youth employment, women entrepreneurship, and by-product valorisation.
Through stakeholder interviews in Tanzania and Dutch/EU importer consultations, Nitidæ will pinpoint technical, administrative, financial, and logistical gaps, while identifying reputational, qualitative, and marketing levers to boost Tanzanian kernel demand.
Specific objectives
OS1. Establishing the cashew 2026-30 strategy and roadmap for the Dutch cooperation (EKN & RVO)
OS2. Creating a discussion platform between public and private sector stakeholders around cashew processing in Tanzania (kernel and byproducts)
Results
R1. A comprehensive 2026-2030 cashew strategy and roadmap in Tanzania for the Dutch cooperation (EKN & RVO)
R2. Structured public-private and private-private platform meetings between Tanzanian and European stakeholders
Activities
A1. Identify specific challenges that Dutch/EU companies in the cashew sector encounter. Ordered by relevance to the sector and to the earning capacity for the Dutch companies.
A2. Review tools the Dutch Embassy and cooperation have to make strategic interventions
A3. Search for possible synergies between the Netherlands and other EU-partners, both public and private
A4. Design a roadmap that identifies strategic and focussed interventions the Dutch Embassy and cooperation could undertake in the years towards 2030
A5. Implement a guideline / structure which identifies the topics to be discussed, procedure, and stakeholders to be involved, and gathers wishes from both public and private partners to discuss during the platform meetings
A6. Oversee platform meetings to facilitate private-public discussions between Tanzanian stakeholders and private-private discussions between European and Tanzanian stakeholders, as well as a EKN-RVO strategy validation meeting with stakeholders
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Anne Meyer
Agroeconomist graduated from the Institut des Régions Chaudes (IRC) of the Institut Agro Montpellier and from EM LYON (MSc Management), she has been passionate about tropical agricultural value chains for more than twenty years. She has put her skills at the service of NGOs and cooperatives, but also of the FAO and the organic agri-food industry (Ecotone group). She joined Nitidæ's Markets & Value Chains department in March 2024, and then became Country Representative in Tanzania in 2026.
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Julia Artigas Sancho
Process engineer and holder of a European MsC in Renewable energies, she works on energy-related issues in African industry, since 2016. Process optimization and agri-waste-to-energy systems are her main expertise areas: appropriate technologies, training on operation and maintenance, biofuels…
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Maël Bertet
With a degree in agricultural engineering, Maël specialises in sustainable agricultural value chains. His work combines field studies, stakeholder coordination and strategic recommendations to improve sustainability performance within supply chains. He joined Nitidæ's research department in November 2025.
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Cédric Rabany
Holder of a Master of Science, "Agricultural Engineer and territories development" from the Institut Supérieur d’Agriculture (ISARA Lyon), he brings his expertise in agro-food/agricultural sectors' analysis and development, strengthening of supplychain actors (producers, private/public actors, agro-food industries...), socio-economic analysis of agricultural chains and his great knowledge of companies in these markets
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Pierre Ricau
Holder of a Master Degree in "Agricultural Development and Economic Policies" from the Institute of Development Studies (IEDES), Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne University and AgroParisTech. He brings his expertise in agricultural market analysis (especially cashew, sesame, shea, cocoa, hevea, corn, rice and onion), development of agro-food sectors, training engineering and consultancy on public agricultural/agro-industrial policies
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Léo Godard
Agronomist with a degree from the French National School of Agricultural Science and Engineering of Toulouse (INP ENSAT), he works on the analysis of agroindustrial projects and provide consultancy for promoters and investors of agro value chains. He also provides technical assistance and consultancy for small to large scale agricultural to switch to organic or regenerative practices
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