Master Class: Carbon Credit as a Green Fund in the Cashew Sector

Unlock innovative green financing and turn environmental sustainability into capital for your agribusiness.
Agribusinesses face critical capital shortages for working capital and equipment modernization. Organized by the African Cashew Alliance (ACA), this intensive 3-day master class in Yamoussoukro, Côte d’Ivoire, is designed to bridge this funding gap. Participants will learn how to navigate the international carbon market, leverage green funds, and transform environmental data into bankable financial opportunities specifically tailored for the cashew value chain.
What You Will Gain
    • Carbon Market Mastery: Understand how the international carbon credit market operates and differentiate between credits and green funds.
    • Monitoring Tools: Master the specialized tools needed to monitor, analyze, and track carbon credits in production and processing.
    • Bankable Applications: Learn to build compliant, investor-ready loan and grant applications to secure dedicated carbon financing lines.
    • Risk Mitigation: Use market data and carbon analysis to make better purchasing, technology, and operational decisions.

Who This Training Is For
    • Agribusiness Executives: Cashew processing managers, financial managers, and cooperative leaders.
    • Financial Professionals: Representatives from banks and financial institutions looking to support green agricultural projects.
    • Trade Stakeholders: Exporters, traders, and sector-support organizations seeking a competitive edge in sustainable trade.

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About Wim Simonse

Wim Simonse is an agribusiness developer and founder of Away4Africa, supporting companies, cooperatives, and institutions in strengthening their operations in Africa. With an MSc in Tropical Agriculture and over 25 years of professional experience, including 12 years based in Burkina Faso, he combines deep field knowledge with strategic insight. He co-founded and served as the first Director of Anatrans, a pioneering cashew processing company. His expertise spans agricultural value chains, processing industries, and supply and marketing links to European markets. Through Away4Africa (www.away4africa.nl), Wim provides consultancy in business planning, process optimization, and compliance with market, social, and environmental standards. He is also co-developer of FarmerLink and FactoryLink, innovative software solutions created under ExoLink (www.exolink.eu), which enhance traceability, monitoring, and performance for farmer organizations and SMEs across Africa. He initiated the CashewTree (www.cashewtree.eu), a platform bridging for companies compensating carbon through cashew farmers in Africa sequestrating carbon in their plantations, where he developed the concept of carbon sequestration in cashew plantations in Benin and other African countries.

Hyacinthe OUATTARA
Hyacinthe OUATTARA, Agricultural Economist and Environmentalist, expert in development and environmental project management, access to finance, market analysis, and agricultural value chains.
With over 15 years of experience in the analysis and development of agricultural sectors and value chains, Hyacinthe OUATTARA is the founding director of Maryse Holding SARL.
Maryse Holding is a business development services organization specializing in agribusiness development in Africa. It offers tailored support to cooperatives and factories within agricultural value chains to improve their operational efficiency and long-term sustainability.
Since 2023, Maryse Holding has been ExoLink’s local partner in Côte d’Ivoire under a franchise agreement. Through the FarmerLink digital solution, it assists cooperatives and processing units across several agricultural sectors in digitalizing their data management, specifically for: data collection and mapping; tracking commercial transactions and traceability; carbon sequestration; deforestation monitoring for EUDR compliance; and conducting dynamic surveys on economic, environmental, and social conditions. The goal is to strengthen the professionalism and competitiveness of these cooperatives and units, facilitate optimal decision-making through better data management, and promote equitable and resilient economic development.
Within the framework of carbon sequestration projects in Côte d’Ivoire, Maryse Holding operates in the following areas:
    • Producer identification, codification, and data collection
    • Farm mapping and eligibility surveys
    • Data quality control on FarmerLink
    • Partner training and skills transfer
    • Contribution to carbon project development
    • Organization of stakeholder consultation workshops for carbon projects

Course Details

Instructor

With Wim Simonse & Hyacinthe OUATTARA

Info

16–19 November 2026

Participants’ arrival: 16 November 2026

Classroom-based training: 17 and 18 November 2026.

Participants’ departure: 19 November 2026.

Training venue: Abidjan

Price

$800

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Wim Simonse

Hyacinthe OUATTARA