August 2017 The Aga Khan Foundation, one of the primary partners for implementation of MozaCajú, has posted a story highlighting the many successes of the project since its initiation in 2013. To read the full story on the AKF website, please click here.
March 2017 – International Women’s Day Cashew farming communities in northern Mozambique have been experiencing firsthand the important contributions that women can make when they are empowered to make a difference. Since 2014, MozaCajú, a USDA-funded project that supports production, processing, and marketing of cashew along the entire value chain,…
Increasingly, global consumers want to know about the origin of their food. Efficient, transparent supply chain management systems allow for the tracking of a product from harvest through transport, storage, processing, and commercialization. Information collected along the way helps to enhance supply-side management, mitigate risks to food safety, and facilitate…
January 2017 Throughout January to the end of the rainy season in February and March, Mozambican cashew farmers like Mariamo Agy and her husband Carlos Muekela are busy planting new cashew trees. Since 2014, MozaCajú has been working with cashew farmers to promote planting of new cashew trees through farmer…
December 2016 The President of the Republic, Filipe Nyusi, inaugurated a cashew processing plant near the city of Nampula mid-morning of Friday, December 9th.According to the Chief of State, this project responds to one of the objectives of the cashew master plan that calls for increasing the capacity and processing…
The current cashew marketing year in Mozambique could provide a tax revenue of US$33 million resulting from the export of 110,000 tonnes of raw nuts, said the president of the Association of Cashew Manufacturers (Aicaju). Mohamed Yunus, who made an upward revision of cashew production in this campaign from 120,000…
The commercialization of cashew nuts in Mozambique in the current 2016/2017 harvest season is expected to reach 120,000 tonnes compared to the 100,000 registered tons in the previous harvest season, said the director of INCAJU, the National Institute of Cashew Development. Ilídio Bande, who spoke in the Nampula district during…
According to an article on Bloomberg, the world’s sales for cashew nuts are growing faster than any other nut, even as the production in some regions slows. “The global popularity of the kidney-shaped nut has been growing faster than any other tree nut — even almonds. Demand jumped 53 percent…
Mida Juma, MozaCajú’s head chef, has grown up cooking with cashew nuts. Born and raised on Ilha de Moçambique, a historic island in the northern province of Nampula, Mida loves cooking traditional dishes as well as experimenting to discover fun, new ways to add cashew to her diet. As she…
In an interview in The Nation, a Nigerian newspaper, Dr. Babafemi Oyewole the Managing Director/CEO of the African Cashew Alliance (ACA) says that that investment in cashew farming can help countries such as Nigeria diversify from a mono product economy. Cashew, he explains, has high prospects of attracting…
