The SCDEP aims to reduce poverty through activities that will strengthen competitiveness and improve quality in the cashew nuts, groundnuts and sesame sectors.

 Results

• 1300 farmers have improved their capacity to grow higher quality cashew nuts, groundnuts and sesame through Farmer Field School.
• Established a Trade Information Resource Center for information dissemination practices by distributing real-time information of the international cashew market on the weekly Gambian Cashew Market Bulletins.
• 100 stakeholders in the groundnut value chain participated in a buyer-seller meeting in October 2015.
• 3 cashew processors have adopted new packaging technologies (packaging machines, new consumer packages with Ziploc and informative labels with bar codes) that allows them to sell to local supermarkets and hotels.
• 7 companies have successfully completed the Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) implementation process, which is a preventative system to address food safety through the analysis and control of biological, chemical and physical hazards.