Benin

The Government of Benin established a partnership with the EIF in 2003, embarking on the development of a Diagnostic Trade Integration Study (DTIS) and Action Matrix, along with evidence‑based and government-led analysis of constraints and opportunities for making trade work for economic prosperity and poverty reduction. The DTIS was completed in 2005, with an update ten years later. Together, the studies have provided a roadmap for progress toward the goal of supporting small businesses to trade and develop the kinds of jobs that improve lives and spur sustainable economic development.
14 December 2021 - Deanna Ramsay Marie-France Boucher
Yet the country is now Africa’s fourth largest pineapple exporter, and its trade of the fruit with the European Union (EU) increased by almost six times between 2000 and 2014, reaching between 400,000 and 500,000 tons a year. But in 2017 there was a major hitch when the government instituted a voluntary ban on exports to the EU because of high pesticide levels found in its fruit.
19 August 2021
The multimillion-dollar shea industry is booming in French-speaking Africa. With the right support, there is a lot of room for the sector to grow and for rural women to benefit.
19 August 2021
French-speaking Africa is home to high-value agricultural products. EIF is working with producers and processors to make sure they can meet national and global market demands.
24 June 2021 - Deanna Ramsay
How strategic funding can help to ensure a global beauty industry creates local profit
8 April 2021 - Deanna Ramsay
Getting organic certification for shea can be a journey
25 June 2020 - Global Shea Alliance
Shea is critical to the income of rural communities, and a new effort across four shea-producing countries in West Africa is looking to boost those incomes
New report delves into the trade data on agriculture on the continent, finding positive trends, points of concern and suggestions for the future
In some of the most impoverished countries in the world, agriculture is the backbone of the economy
23 July 2018
The closing ceremony echoed the Call to Action launched at the Forum, taking inclusive trade for LDCs to the next level
24 January 2018 - UNCTAD
Two dozen Beninese women making a unique type of garri flour sign up to a new code of practice to better market their product and boost incomes