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Sustainable Cassava in Logoualé

  • 2025 Winner

Bougainvillea

Context

Traditionally in Côte d'Ivoire, women contribute to the food security of their families through food crops used for family nutrition and sometimes providing additional income by selling these products on local markets, but they have limited access to land and earn little income from their work.

The Federation of Active Women of Logoualé (FEFALO) brings together 141 agricultural cooperatives, representing 3,525 women in the Logoualé sub-prefecture of Côte d'Ivoire. Targeting women farmers directly to help them strengthen their economic role by enabling them to control the complete chain of cassava production, processing, and marketing, FEFALO provides each of its member associations with plots of land for growing cassava and food crops.

The Breton association Le Bougainvillier has been running projects in the commune of Logoualé for around twenty years, particularly in the areas of education and health. It is within this framework that FEFALO and the Le Bougainvillier association have joined forces to carry out a cassava processing project for the benefit of FEFALO's member associations.

  • Country: Ivory Coast
  • Location: Logoualé
  • Sector of intervention:
    Agriculture, Food Sovereignty
  • La Guilde Endowment: €12,500
  • Project cost: €42,500
  • Project leader: Le Bougainvillier
  • In partnership with: Federation of Active Women of Logoualé
Funder(s):
• La Guilde
• The dB'Human endowment fund

Project objectives

Promote the complete cassava sector (production, processing and marketing) in a sustainable and inclusive manner, structured around the economic empowerment of women and the promotion of local products

Support the training of women farmers, members of the Logoualé Federation of Active Women, as part of their cassava production, processing and marketing project in order to create an alternative source to the sale of cash crops

Develop agricultural professions and initiate a process of economic empowerment of women and food security at local and national level

Activities

Equipment of the processing workshop (acquisition of modern cassava processing machines)

Training and capacity building:

  • Training women in modern farming techniques, agroecology, and crop association to preserve soils.
  • Training on cassava processing methods (attiéké, tapioca, placali but also powder as a substitute for wheat flour in bread making) and business management (accounting, marketing, project management).
  • Training on export and quality standards to integrate national and regional markets.
  • Training of staff in the use and maintenance of processing unit equipment

Legal expertise work:

  • Drafting of an agreement for the co-management of the processing workshop within the FEFALO Federation of Active Women of Logoualé, including the distribution of responsibilities, income and maintenance costs of the factory and the distribution of profits between the stakeholders.
  • Establishment of a participatory governance framework to ensure transparency and sustainability.

Direct beneficiaries

423 women farmers, members of the 141 agricultural cooperatives, which together make up FEFALO (3 women per association), who will follow the training courses

3 women permanent employees of the processing unit

3,525 women members of the 141 agricultural cooperatives who will benefit from the processing of cassava produced by their agricultural cooperatives

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