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The Cashew Cookbook
This cashew recipe cookbook showcases over 25 recipes inspired by the best dishes presented during the course of cashew festivals held in Banjul, The Gambia, and Ziguinchor, Senegal, in early 2012. As part of IRD's Gambia River Basin Cashew Value Chain Enhancement Project (CEP), professional chefs as well as amateur cooks used their imaginations to incorporate cashew int... more
Filed Under: Food & Agriculture, Nutrition, Value Chains, Africa, Guinea-Bissau, Senegal, The Gambia
The Cashew Value Chain Enhancement Project
The Gambia River Basin Cashew Value Chain Enhancement Project (CEP) aims to strengthen the cashew value chain and increase the incomes of smallholder cashew farmers and processors in The Gambia, Senegal, and Guinea Bissau. By increasing incomes, the project helps improve food security by providing training to cashew farmers, seeds for higher yielding varieties, new culti... more
Filed Under: Food & Agriculture, Economic Growth, Nutrition, Value Chains, Africa, Guinea-Bissau, Senegal, The Gambia
IRD in Laos - One Village
In summer 2011, Emory graduate student Peggy Jean Craig travelled to Laos to work with IRD's projects there. Watch her video about how IRD's projects have changed the lives of the people of one village - one village out of hundreds. more
Filed Under: Civil Society, Food & Agriculture, Education, Water, Women & Gender, Youth, Asia & Pacific, Laos