Our work

Our work: Eritrea

Our purpose is to help African food processors grow. Here is a selection of our work: who supported it, what we did and what changed.

Workers sort freshly picked mangoes into crates under the orchard trees
Pictured: mangoes sorted into crates in the orchard
Type of work
Crop or value chain
Who it reached
Country
Burkina Faso6Malawi3Angola1Benin1Côte d'Ivoire1Eritrea1Ghana1Kenya1Mozambique1Nigeria1
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Dairy is a cornerstone of nutrition and livelihoods in Eritrea, but it is often unaffordable, and hygiene and food safety systems have not kept pace. Since 2021 we have supported Teagasc in implementing CSARIDE, the EU-funded dairy project in Eritrea, across 11 missions. We trained processors in affordable dairy products, introduced ration calculators and farm training, and worked with inspectors and the national laboratory on test methods and procedures. In June 2025 we published a facilitator manual on running small-scale milk collection centres as cooperative businesses.

Farmers bring milk in cans and buckets to a village milk collection point
Eritrea

Linking dairy production to markets (CSARIDE)

1facilitator manual for milk collection centres

Value chain, food safety and business work that linked Eritrea's dairy farms to markets under the EU-funded CSARIDE project.

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