Category: Press releases

West Africa Trade & Investment Hub Co-Invests with Koster Keunen to Improve Smallholder Beekeeping

Enhancing Two-Way Trade and Investment Under Prosper Africa December 21, 2020 The USAID-funded West Africa Trade & Investment Hub has announced a co-investment partnership with Koster Keunen, a leading natural waxes company, that will support West African smallholder farmers by organizing and improving beeswax supply chains from the region. The partnership, which promotes the goals… […]

The West Africa Trade & Investment Hub Co-Invests with WACOT Rice to Improve Food Security and Promote Local Production in Nigeria

December 14, 2020 The USAID-funded West Africa Trade & Investment Hub has announced its first co-investment partnership with WACOT Rice Limited, a Nigerian rice company based in Kebbi State. The Trade Hub’s grant of $1.48 million will directly support its Argungu Rice Outgrower Expansion Project, allowing WACOT to onboard an additional 5,143 rice farmers into… […]