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Tradewinds
Tradewinds is a monthly newsletter produced by the West Africa Trade Hub.
December, 2012
Generally speaking, 2012 was a great year for business in West Africa, particularly in the sectors targeted by the USAID West Africa Trade Hub. Successful conferences brought hundreds of shea and...
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The region’s third Border Information Center has opened at the Benin-Nigeria border, taking on what many traders believe may be the most difficult border crossing in the region. The USAID...
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For millennia, shea trees have grown across West Africa and the sheanuts they produce have been central to life. But development in rural communities, global climate change and the spread of...
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Bankers learn about USAID Trade Hub access to finance initiatives80 finance experts discussed constraints that limit small and medium enterprises’ access to finance and learned about the...
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November, 2012
The handcrafts sector in West Africa is perhaps its most vibrant. Millions of people make handcrafts and skilled artisans generate income and create jobs thanks to their talents and abilities. The...
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In October, Jackie Shaw, fashion director of Africa Fashion Guide, an online platform which promotes the supply chain of African fashion and textiles, participated in the first Ghana Fashion Week in...
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Editor's Note: In early November, USAID Trade Hub Writer and Editor Craig Duncan traveled to the Benin-Nigeria border towns of Kraké and Semé, respectively, to see firsthand the issues that the...
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Gift giving is an art – but it begins with knowing what’s available. Every year, Tradewinds asks Leslie Shages, who works with hundreds of West African exporters and buyers in world...
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AfricaNow! Handcrafts Exporters Workshop held at SIAO 201287 handcrafts producers and exporters from Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Congo Republic, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Mali, Niger, Nigeria,...
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A new report by the World Bank highlights the importance for Africa’s future of strengthening regional trade. “Africa Can Help Feed Africa: Removing barriers to regional trade in food...
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October, 2012
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Borderless 2013: Connecting Markets, the second annual conference of the Borderless Alliance, will take place in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, Feb. 14 and 15, the Borderless Alliance announced. The...
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Delays drop sharply on a major West African corridor - a win for trade (and evidence-based advocacy)
Delays on the Tema-Ouagadougou corridor, which connect Ghana’s busiest port to Burkina Faso’s inland cargo terminal, Ouagarinter, have fallen by 7% over the past five years – and...
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Removing barriers to regional trade within West Africa is among the main goals of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). But in practice this has proven difficult to implement:...
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“Shea 2013: Global Perspectives,” the sixth annual conference of the Global Shea Alliance, will take place in Abuja, Nigeria, March 4-6, 2013, the Global Shea Alliance announced. ...
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Design Network Africa facilitates designer dialogue, collaboration16 designers from across the continent, including Burkina Faso, Ghana, Mali, and Senegal, discussed the challenges to the...
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Delali Tagboto works with hundreds of women farmer groups in Ghana who harvest and sell mangoes and dry cassava to make gari, a condiment popular with many Ghanaian dishes. But the company’s...
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September, 2012
Mouhamadou Beye, a business student in Dakar, Senegal, is an example of the important role export agents play in the handcrafts value chain: agents like Beye facilitate business between buyers and...
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By 2050, the area suitable for growing cashew in West Africa could virtually double as a result of global climate change, researchers said at the 7th annual conference of the African Cashew Alliance...
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It was a remarkable beginning. African textiles generated a lot of interest at New York Fashion Week.Smack dab in the busiest hour of the busiest day in New York City’s fashion scene,...
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In July, Justin Bayili became the first Managing Director of the Borderless Alliance, the USAID West Africa Trade Hub’s project to reduce the high costs of transport in West Africa by helping...
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A recent, thought-provoking study by the International Labor Office , Regional Trade and Employment in ECOWAS, confirms the intuitively held view that, “… exporters in the ECOWAS region...
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Shea 2013: Global Perspectives coming to Abuja, Nigeria in March 2013Shea 2013: Global Perspectives, the sixth annual conference of the Global Shea Alliance, will take place in Abuja, Nigeria, March...
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August, 2012
For decades artisanal products from West Africa have inspired the world’s imagination. Much of Picasso’s inspiration for his cubism period came from African masks. More recently the...
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“What do you really want for your business?” Colleen Pendleton, international handicrafts market specialist, asked exporters at a recent artisan exporter training workshop in Abidjan...
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Border crossings cause considerable delays when transporting goods within West Africa. A year after it was unveiled with Ghanaian and Togolese stakeholders, the region’s first Border...
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Funlayo and Shola Alabi started Shea Radiance in 2006.Over 200 people celebrated the launch of Shea Radiance products at Target – the second largest retailer in the U.S. – at a gala event...
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The opportunities to see amazing African crafts at West Africa’s largest handcrafts event are almost endless.Want to see upscale contemporary collections from top African designers? You’...
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In 2010, Inoussa Dao of the Centre Lukare won the first prize for creativity at the Salon International de l'Artisanat de Ouagadougou, the biennial handcrafts event - the largest of its kind in West...
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The news spread quickly and within three weeks, almost 5,000 women in rural northern Ghana had participated in trainingson the best techniques to ensure high quality sheanuts. The trainings were...
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The ECOWAS Trade and Enterprise Experts Network (ECOWASTEN) is the latest organization to announce its sponsorship of the African Cashew Alliance’s 7th annual conference, which will take place...
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