{"id":11116,"date":"2020-03-11T15:41:51","date_gmt":"2020-03-11T15:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/selfhelpafrica.org\/uk\/?p=11116"},"modified":"2020-03-24T15:16:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-24T15:16:00","slug":"improving-the-lives-of-women-cashew-producers-in-burkina-faso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/selfhelpafrica.org\/uk\/improving-the-lives-of-women-cashew-producers-in-burkina-faso\/","title":{"rendered":"Cashew boost for West African women"},"content":{"rendered":"

A newly-launched Self Help Africa project will improve the lives of nearly 2,800 women farmers and producers within the cashew nut sector in Burkina Faso. <\/p>

A newly-launched cashew project will provide a valuable source of income for 2,800 women farmers in West Africa.<\/p>

The project, Women\u2019s Economic Empowerment Through Entrepreneurship in the Cashew Value Chain (DEFI), will organise the participating women into five cooperatives in Burkina Faso. <\/p>

The women will receive training on entrepreneurship, management, business plan development, and on investment and funding opportunities in the cashew value chains.<\/p>

In addition, the project, which will operate in in the Como\u00e9, Houet and K\u00e9n\u00e9dougou provinces will create enterprises around other income-generating activities, such as beekeeping and market gardening.<\/p>

Self Help Africa\u2019s Gender and Inclusion Advisor Mary Sweeney said that the project would allow these women to earn more money for the household, and thus have a positive effect on the whole family. We\u2019ll also be supporting women who don\u2019t have their own orchards, but who are working alongside their husbands in our target communities.\u201d<\/p>

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