Ensuring a healthy diet for BoP consumers with nutritional peanut-based paste

About the partnership

Burkina Faso

Soy and Oil Seeds

Status:

Active

The purpose is to develop a partnership with at least 10,000 smallholder farmers (70% women, 40% youth) to ensure a permanent supply of healthy local peanuts and thus develop high-quality nutritious and therapeutic peanut-based paste affordable for low-income consumers.

About the business champion

INNOFASO is an agri-food company from Burkina Faso. Under the motto "Nutritional autonomy for all", the company offers to buyers from the humanitarian sector (UNICEF, CAMEG,…), therapeutic food for the prevention of malnutrition in children (Plumpy Nut, Plumpy Sup) . Currently the company imports more than 400 tons of roasted seed peanuts per year from Argentina at 400,000,000 FCFA (€ 609,796). INNOFASO seeks to completely replace its import of Argentinian peanuts with local and healthy production (aflatoxin level ≤ 10ppb according to Codex Alimentarius). In addition, it will help to limit imports of these therapeutic products from Europe especially.

Thus, the transition will lead to the production of nutritious and therapeutic pasta-type products for the needs of the institutional market (humanitarian) and the direct local market (mainly low-income consumers).

Key interventions

Local contracts to promote farmers’ inclusion

Produce high-quality peanut in order to reduce imports

Develop protein products for BoP Consumers