CERTIBIO - Technical assistance to Eccokim for Organic cocoa certification and production

Start
July 2018
End
June 2021
Project cost
146 500 €
Role in the project
Expertise cocoa sector

Countries

Côte d’Ivoire

Fields

Organic Agriculture Agroprocessing Biodiversity Market

Sectors

Cocoa

Partners

Main goals

In a context where the cocoa sector in Ivory Coast is facing an groing demand for certified organic beans, Ecookim wants to certify 9 organic cocoa cooperatives, by starting a voluntary program aimed at supporting 1,800 producers, or 200 producers per cooperative. Nitidæ, who already has the experience of supporting a cooperative organic certification in Ivory Coast, was chosen by Ecookim to support it in its project: "support for certification and production of organic cocoa"

Specific objectives

Accompany Ecookim in the process of organic certification of cocoa cooperatives and support for organic production through the establishment of a monitoring and support system for parcels

Beneficiaries

Actors in the cocoa sector in Ivory Coast

Results

Cocoa cooperatives have benefited from support in obtaining organic certification

Activities

** A1. ** Sensitization and support for the identification of producers

** A2. ** Accompaniment to the procedures of the certification and setting up of the SCI

** A3. ** Training on technical itineraries adapted to fight against phytosanitary pressure and yield reduction: setting up a plot monitoring system (9 cooperatives x 3 plots over 3 years)

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