Tanzania: integrating the management of gender dynamics at the heart of horticultural companies
- 22/12/2025
- Posted by: Sandra Borma
- Category: News
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In December, COLEAD organised its first face-to-face training in Tanzania on managing gender dynamics in the workplace, held in Arusha as part of the FFM+ programme. This session is fully aligned with COLEAD’s Gender Strategy and Action Plan (2024–2027), which aims to systematically mainstream gender equality across all interventions and ensure equitable benefits for women and marginalised groups within agricultural value chains. Gender is a key lever under Result 2 of the FFM+ programme, which focuses on strengthening the capacity… +Sierra leone: collective training as a lever for access to formal horticultural markets
- 22/12/2025
- Posted by: Sandra Borma
- Category: News
COLEAD recently successfully concluded a strategic collective training session dedicated to market access, held in Freetown, Sierra Leone, in November 2025. This face-to-face training was delivered by a COLEAD expert based in West Africa, as part of the FFM Plus programme. The main objective of the training was to strengthen the capacities of horticultural companies and producer organisations currently operating in informal or semi-informal markets, but aiming to transition towards higher-value formal, regional and international markets. The session primarily targeted… +Strengthening access to organic markets in the Pacific: the case of Kokonut Pacific Solomon Islands
- 22/12/2025
- Posted by: Sandra Borma
- Category: News
Under the Fit For Market Plus (FFM+) programme, the COLEAD continues its commitment to strengthening the capacities of agri-food SMEs and supporting their sustainable access to international markets. In 2025, the COLEAD notably supported Kokonut Pacific Solomon Islands Ltd (KPSI) through a pre-audit of the National Organic Program (NOP), followed by certification support. This assistance builds on earlier engagement, in particular through the completion of the Sustainability Self-Assessment (SAS). This diagnostic highlighted numerous strong sustainability practices, while also identifying areas… +Agrinnovators.org: highlighting 100 agrifood talents across Africa and the Caribbean
- 22/12/2025
- Posted by: Sandra Borma
- Category: News
Our online agrifood partnership sessions and series organised in collaboration with our partners PAFO, IICA, PFO, OECD and UN Women and supported among other through the FFM Plus programme have featured outstanding agrifood entrepreneurs who are transforming food systems, driving innovation, and creating sustainable impact both locally and internationally. As part of our commitment to amplify their voices and highlight their achievements, we are thrilled to celebrate the publication of 100 business profiles. These profiles spotlight: The entrepreneurs’ business journey… +Improving energy performance: Bodukwan Multi Fruit Processing Ltd committed to more efficient production in Ghana
- 22/12/2025
- Posted by: Sandra Borma
- Category: News
As part of the Fit For Market Plus (FFM+) programme, COLEAD coordinated and facilitated a targeted technical assistance mission to support Bodukwan Multi Fruit Processing Ltd, in Ghana, in improving its energy performance. A certified expert was deployed to carry out a Type 1 energy audit in line with ISO 50002:2014 at the company’s processing facility in Kumasi. The mission aimed to analyse the plant’s energy consumption by source, equipment and process, review existing operation and maintenance practices, and identify… +Waste management – Malawi Mangoes adopts a circular, efficient and value-creating management model
- 22/12/2025
- Posted by: Sandra Borma
- Category: News
As part of the Fit For Market Plus (FFM+) programme, COLEAD supported Malawi Mangoes (MM) through a strategic mission aimed at transforming its waste management system from a linear and costly approach into a circular, efficient and value-creating model. Implemented between September and November 2025, the mission followed a structured approach, from the initial diagnostic to the co-development of a comprehensive operational strategy. The assessment carried out on the Matumba and Dzuwa farms, as well as at the Salima processing… +Market access: Rayfield Farms resumes exports from Nigeria to the United Kingdom
- 22/12/2025
- Posted by: Sandra Borma
- Category: News
Rayfield Agricultural and Integrated Farms Ltd., a Nigerian family-owned company based in Keffi, Nasarawa State, successfully resumed exports of fresh leafy vegetables to the United Kingdom in June 2025, following targeted technical assistance provided by the COLEAD under the Fit For Market Plus (FFM+) programme. Operating a 156-hectare farm, Rayfield had lost access to its export markets as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite these challenges, the company’s management remained committed to gradually improving its production and handling practices… +Strengthening contractual relationships with producers: the Malakass example in the cassava value chain in Madagascar
- 22/12/2025
- Posted by: Sandra Borma
- Category: News
As part of the Fit For Market Plus (FFM+) programme, COLEAD supported the Malagasy company Malakass, active in cassava processing in the Atsimo-Andrefana region, with the aim of strengthening and sustainably structuring its relationships with local producers. This field mission, carried out from 30 September to 11 October 2025, sought to secure a regular, reliable and high-quality supply—an essential condition for the company’s continued development. The support was built around a participatory approach, starting with an in-depth diagnostic with the… +Agritech in Ghana: Complete Farmer strengthens its network of 12,500 smallholder farmers with targeted technical assistance
- 22/12/2025
- Posted by: Sandra Borma
- Category: News
Complete Farmer, a Ghanaian Agritech innovator, is set to strengthen its outgrower network with technical assistance from EDFI Management Company, delivered by COLEAD. This support, part of the AgriFI Country Window (CW) Ghana facility, will help Complete Farmer enhance its outgrower model and training systems, benefiting over 12,500 smallholder and 163 commercial farmers. Earlier in 2025, AgriFI invested USD 2.5 million (EUR 2.2 million) in Complete Farmer, providing long-term financing to scale operations. COLEAD, selected in 2024 by EDFI Management… +EPILIMNION in Trinidad and Tobago: expanding greenhouse production capacity to substitute imports
- 22/12/2025
- Posted by: Sandra Borma
- Category: News
In September 2025, EPILIMNION Ltd., marketing its products under the CRISP brand, benefited—through the FFM+ programme—from in-depth technical support aimed at optimising and expanding its greenhouse production capacity under tropical conditions in Trinidad and Tobago. Specialising in the production of baby greens, microgreens and herbs for local retail and food service markets, EPILIMNION has established itself in recent years as a credible local alternative to imported products, notably during the COVID-19 pandemic. In response to rapidly growing demand, the company… +