Gebana Burkina Faso
BIO has granted EUR 24.200 of technical assistance to Gebana Burkina Faso, a company that processes and exports fairtrade and organic fruit and nuts.
Amount
€ 24,244.00
Type of investment
Subsidy
Beneficiary locations
Investment field
Enterprises
Activity
Gebana Burkina Faso processes and exports Fairtrade and organic cashew and dried mango, mainly to Europe. The company is established in Bobo-Dioulasso (Région des Hauts-Bassins, South-West Burkina Faso) in the heart of a productive region, where it sources its cashew and mangoes from over 3,000 smallholder farmers (mainly organised in cooperatives). GBF is operational since 2006 and majority-owned by Gebana AG, a Swiss company created to build integrated, sustainable food supply chains to B2B and B2C markets.
GBF currently has two processing sites in Bobo-Dioulasso, one site being dedicated to processing cashew nuts and another one for mangoes. However, these assets have become too small for GBF’s current operations and volumes, which prompted the company to start a project to build a new, state-of-the-art, integrated processing facility for cashew and dried mango near Bobo-Dioulasso.
Technical assistance
BIO will support Gebana in preparing the BRCGS food safety global standards certification and the Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit (SMETA), especially :
- Develop and implement BRCGS issue 9 (including FSMA -Food safety modernization Act) for the new factory. The BRCGS provides a framework to manage product safety, integrity, legality and quality, and the operational controls for these criteria in the food and food ingredient manufacturing, processing and packing industry.
- Organise an SMETA GAP audit scan. The SMETA is the world's most widely used audit to make improvements to working conditions and environmental performances in a company's business and supply chain.
- Provide ongoing expertise support until all audits have been successfully realised. I.e. Third party audits: BRCGS & SMETA, 2nd party Customer Audits/ onboarding questionnaires, Product/Process troubleshooting complaints, internal audits, ...
Expected impact
Demonstrating the commitment of Gebana Burkina Faso in the quality, safety and control of their products and ensuring that the working conditions and environmental performances of their production site are improved according to the highest standards through the successful achievement of these 2 certifications, and eventually convince more clients to trust Gebana's products
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Investment Companies & Funds
African Rivers Fund IV
10,000,000.00
Angola, Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, Zambia
05/12/2024
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