According to the General Director of the Mozambican National Cashew Institute (Incaju), Filomena Maiopue, the cashew crop in Mozambique is expected to surpass last year’s harvest by nearly 17,000 MT, reaching 80,000 MT. Read more.
Taking a holistic market system approach, TechnoServe is helping to transform the Mozambican cashew industry and improve the livelihoods of thousands of small-scale farmers and cashew processors. Read more.
TechnoServe’s Former President and CEO, Bruce McNamer, discusses how having a real impact on the lives of significant numbers of families requires change at the industry level. Read more.
TechnoServe’s Senior Vice President of Development, Simon Winter, explains how just improving farm yield is not enough to lift families and communities out of poverty – we also need to change the systems in which smallholders operate. Read more.
MozaCajú partner, the Aga Khan Foundation, shares the news of the launch of mozacaju.com and information about the cashew industry in Mozambique. Read more.
A World Bank report entitled African Agricultural Reforms: The Role of Consensus and Institutions by Ataman Aksoy highlights TechnoServe’s role in the Mozambican cashew sector on pages 177-219. Read more.
In 2015, Pepsi will start using cashew juice in a mixed fruit juice drink sold in India under the Tropicana label, replacing more expensive juices like apple, pineapple and banana. Eventually, the company hopes to add it to drinks around the world. Read more.
Almonds are heart shaped nuts while cashew is kidney shaped, but they both have similar health benefits for the heart, kidneys, and rest of the body. Read more.
Cashews. You may think of them as a straightforward, innocent nut; what you see is what you get with cashews. But you would be wrong. Read more.
Over the last 25 years, Olam has invested close to US$1.7bn across Africa, with considerable investments in rubber, palm, coffee, rice, cotton and edible nuts, to name a few. In 2013 the company reported that it had roughly three million smallholder farmers in its network. Read…
