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In early 2022, our agricultural technicians in Burkina Faso paid out 10% of the sales of dried mango and cashews to nearly 3,000 farming families. Some of them share what this payment means to them — and how they use it.
22. February 2022
Cashew Butter
Organic
Burkina Faso
Roasted cashew pieces from gebana Burkina Faso are the only ingredient for this cashew butter. The fragments are created when cracking the hard shell and peeling off the thin skin of the cashews. The smaller the fragments, the harder it is to sell them, so processing them into butter creates more value.
Use & preparation
- Use as a topping for porridge, muesli or pancakes
- The butter can also be used for baking. For example in these cardamom cashew biscuits.
- Use in savoury dishes to thicken and refine sauces, dips or salad dressings. For example in this cashew dip.
| Nutrition table per 100g | |
|---|---|
| Energy | 2582kJ/617kcal |
| Fat | 47 g |
| of which saturates | 8.2 g |
| Carbohydrates | 28 g |
| of which sugar | 6.2 g |
| Protein | 19 g |
| Salt | 0.04 g |
Ingredients: 100% roasted organic cashews from Burkina Faso.
Allergy advice: May contain traces of gluten, peanuts, soybeans, mustard, sesame, almonds, hazelnuts, walnuts, pecan nuts, brazil nuts, pistachios, macadamia nuts.
Sustainability and supply chain
Producers
Grown by 3031 family farmers on an average of 5.4 ha in the Hauts-Bassins, Sud-Ouest, Cascades and Centre-Ouest Regions in Burkina Faso.
Cultivation
Organic, non-irrigated, manually harvested.
Processing
Manually sorted, processed into paste and packaged in Germany. 100% of employees working in processing have an employment contract, wages on par with minimum wage or better.
Purchasing & Logistics
Purchasing from cooperatives and family farmers straight from the farm since 2005.
Transport: straight from the farm to Bobo-Dioulasso by lorry, by train to Abidjan, by ship to Rotterdam, by lorry to Embrach/Singen.
KONE DJO
FARMER FROM DAN, BURKINA FASO
I eat the cashew apple. Preferably raw!
"I farm three hectares of land with corn, niébé and cashews. My mother-in-law, my brother-in-law and my children help me with the field work," explains Kone Djo. It is difficult to find farm workers, she says. "I notice that more and more people are going to school or to the city. This means there are fewer people to help with the harvest." Kone Djo would like to acquire farming equipment to make her work easier. “Whether it's a tractor or a plough, anything would help us work more efficiently."
Background
Related blog posts
Two million people depend on humanitarian aid; over half a million are refugees. Attacks and assaults, people injured and dead, a third of the country is not under state control. Life in Burkina Faso has become more dangerous. Yet we’re staying put.
26. February 2020
How does a Swiss company share its turnover with 2,500 family farmers in Burkina Faso? It takes a plan, modern technology, a fair share of patience and lots of enthusiasm. Text & Photos: Eleonora Gallo, gebana Berlin
21. February 2020
Over 90% of cashew nuts from West Africa are transported to Asia for processing instead of doing so locally and sending them directly to the customers. Though this may make sense economically, it is highly problematic in many other ways!
9. May 2018
Portrait Ardiata Sawadogo My name is Ardiata Sawadogo, I am the production manager of cashew processing at gebana Afrique.
20. August 2015
Cashew processing The processing from the raw nut to the ready-to-sell kernel is extremely labor-intensive: It takes a full five days and is done entirely by hand.
12. August 2015
The cashew harvest began in February as it always does, but it soon became apparent that everything would be different this time.
6. August 2015
The cashew growers are making the most of the skyrocketing cashew prices that have come about as a result of demand from Asia, and are selling to the highest bidders — in spite of their contracts with gebana. What do the farmers themselves say about this?
6. August 2015
Our cashew production has a major impact in Burkina Faso: the elaborate processing alone creates 100 jobs at gebana Afrique. But it also has negative aspects: the nut shell — after all 4/5 of the weight of the raw nut
25. September 2012
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