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Côte d'Ivoire

Côte d'Ivoire is in West Africa. As the pilot country, it gathers qualitative facts checked against official or authoritative sources.

This is one of our pilot countries. The statements below were checked against the official or authoritative pages listed at the bottom of this page. They are qualitative and may change, so confirm details with the institution before you act. Anything we could not verify is listed separately.

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Agricultural products

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  • Official communication from the agriculture minister highlights cocoa, cashew (anacarde) and rubber (hévéa) as leading Ivorian value chains, with a stated shift toward agriculture with higher added value based on innovation, competitiveness and digitalisation.[4]
  • The Ministry of Agriculture, Rural Development and Food Production (Ministère de l'Agriculture, du Développement Rural et des Productions Vivrières) oversees agricultural, land and food policy; the national commercial information portal presents the national agricultural investment programme (PNIA) as the framework for modernising the sector.[15]
  • Food crop value chains are targeted by the World Bank-backed Projet de Développement des Chaînes de Valeur Vivrières (PDC2V) and by the Programme d'Appui au Développement des Filières Agricoles (PADFA) in northern regions, both listed on the ministry's projects page.[16]

Value-addition opportunities

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  • According to press reports, the Prime Minister launched the formulation of the third-generation national agricultural investment programme (PNIA 3) in June 2026; it is said to stress food sovereignty, competitiveness, financing, rural land security and climate resilience, and to promote moving from raw agricultural production toward processing.[3][4]
  • According to press reports, the Conseil du Café-Cacao has opened an identification and authorisation procedure for small cocoa processors (petits transformateurs) for the 2026-2027 season, with applications filed at its headquarters in Abidjan-Plateau until 18 October 2026.[1][2]
  • According to press reports, in March 2026 the cotton-cashew council (Conseil du Coton et de l'Anacarde, whose remit was extended to shea in 2025) held a workshop for cashew processing units on the Sedex SMETA social and ethical audit standard, to help them meet international buyer requirements.[14]

Business opportunities

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  • The Centre de Promotion des Investissements en Côte d'Ivoire (CEPICI) operates the guichet unique for company creation, the central point that receives the full file and issues the documents attesting that the company has been created; other bodies also take part in the procedure, including the notary, the registration office (service du domaine, de l'enregistrement et du timbre), the court (criminal record extract), the town hall and the bank.[5][6]
  • Côte d'Ivoire PME (CI PME) is the state company that, according to the SME ministry's own news page, was created by decree in 2022 to take over from the former Agence Côte d'Ivoire PME; the same page lists the SME guarantee fund (FGPME) and the sub-contracting exchange (BSTP) among the structures linked to the SME portfolio and mentions SME capacity-building workshops. The ministry now in charge of SMEs was not confirmed.[12]
  • The Agence Côte d'Ivoire Export (created by decree in 2022, according to its own website; according to press reports it replaced the former APEXI, the Association pour la Promotion des Exportations de Côte d'Ivoire) provides technical assistance to exporters on capacity building, market access and promotion, advocates simpler and faster export procedures, and lists agro-industry among the clusters of the 2021-2025 national development plan that it covers.[11][32]

Government resources

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  • The Ministry of Agriculture, Rural Development and Food Production oversees agricultural, land and food policy; its Direction du Foncier Rural manages the state's rural land domain, develops and implements rural land policy, and takes part in setting up and monitoring the rural cadastre.[7][15]
  • The Agence Nationale d'Appui au Développement Rural (ANADER) is the agricultural extension agency, providing advisory services in agriculture, livestock and fisheries through regional directorates and local rural extension centres, and working to professionalise farmers and farmer organisations, including through training centres.[10]
  • The Fonds Interprofessionnel pour la Recherche et le Conseil Agricoles (FIRCA) works on applied agronomic and forestry research, the dissemination of agricultural innovations and capacity-building in crop, forestry and animal production, according to its Green Climate Fund accreditation profile.[13]
  • Sector bodies manage individual value chains: according to press reports, the Conseil du Café-Cacao handles the cocoa sector (including authorisation of small cocoa processors) and the Conseil du Coton et de l'Anacarde, whose remit was extended to shea in 2025, covers cotton, cashew and shea.[2][14]

Regulatory information

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  • Côte d'Ivoire Normalisation (CODINORM) is the national standards and certification body: it develops and disseminates Ivorian standards (NI), issues certificates and attestations of conformity, and represents the country in international standardisation bodies.[8][9]
  • CODINORM operates under the supervision of the ministry in charge of industry (today the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Crafts, Ministère du Commerce, de l'Industrie et de l'Artisanat); certain imported goods, including food products, require a certificate of conformity before customs clearance, issued before shipment by approved inspection companies (Cotecna, SGS, BIVAC and Intertek).[9][33]

Financing resources

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  • FIRCA also presents itself as an entry point to green and climate financing for agricultural actors: it says it is accredited to the Adaptation Fund and the Green Climate Fund now lists it as an accredited national direct access entity, while FIRCA acknowledges that access to such funds remains limited and demands persistence.[22]
  • According to press reports (April 2022), the former Agence Côte d'Ivoire PME was dissolved and replaced by the state company Côte d'Ivoire PME (CI PME), tasked in particular with promoting SMEs, encouraging SME creation and improving their access to financing and markets.[23]

Export information

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  • The Conseil du Café-Cacao regulates, stabilises and develops the coffee and cocoa sector; per the trade information portal it organises and monitors external marketing, manages export-sale messaging and controls quality.[17][31]
  • The Conseil de régulation, de suivi et de développement des filières coton et anacarde (Conseil Coton-Anacarde) succeeded ARECA to regulate the cotton and cashew sectors; according to press reports, its remit was widened to shea (April 2025) and then to mango, rather than creating new agencies.[27][19]
  • Phytosanitary certificates for plant exports are handled by national authorities (the Direction de la Protection des Végétaux, du Contrôle et de la Qualité, DPVCQ, is named in a World Bank blog; press reports also name the Direction générale des Productions et de la Sécurité alimentaire). With World Bank Group support, an electronic phytosanitary certificate (ePhyto) was introduced in 2023 and piloted for cocoa and coffee exports at the ports of Abidjan and San-Pédro; according to press reports, electronic certificates issued through the GUCE platform became the official procedure for plant and plant-product exports from May 2023. Exporters should check with the competent authority for the current procedure.[20][34]
  • Agence Côte d'Ivoire Export, created by decree in 2022, supports SME exporters with market knowledge, market expansion and promotional tools, with the aim of promoting and diversifying exports of goods and services.[21]

Training

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  • ANADER (Agence Nationale d'Appui au Développement Rural) provides agricultural and rural advisory services and aims to professionalise farmers and their organisations; it now operates as a public-participation joint-stock company with regional and local extension structures.[18]
  • The École Supérieure d'Agronomie (ESA) of the Institut National Polytechnique Félix Houphouët-Boigny (INP-HB) trains technicians, engineers and entrepreneurs for production, agro-processing and agribusiness, and runs an agri-entrepreneurship incubator.[30]

Markets

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  • The Office d'aide à la Commercialisation des Produits Vivriers (OCPV) regulates and modernises the marketing of food crops, covering market organisation, logistics infrastructure and support to traders, under the technical supervision of the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Crafts.[25][33]
  • The Bourse des Matières Premières Agricoles de Côte d'Ivoire (BMPA-CI), set up with the technical support of the BRVM, is a digital commodity exchange with standardised spot contracts and certified warehouses; its first trading session, on 28 May 2025, covered cashew, cola nut and maize.[26]
  • SIMAgri (Système d'Informations sur les Marchés de produits agricoles), operated in partnership with the NGO INADES-Formation Côte d'Ivoire, publishes market prices for food crops such as cereals, oilseeds and legumes. It appears to be a civil-society initiative rather than a government service.[29]

Organizations

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  • ANOPACI (Association Nationale des Organisations Professionnelles Agricoles de Côte d'Ivoire) is a federation of farmer organisations across many crops and livestock, defending producers' interests and providing technical and commercial information.[24]
  • The Chambre Nationale d'Agriculture de Côte d'Ivoire is meant to be the interface between the State and producers (guidance, advocacy, consultation); according to press reports, a draft decree to reorganise it was examined and validated at a national workshop, and no report of its formal adoption had been found at the time of checking.[28][35][36]
  • The sector councils (Conseil du Café-Cacao, Conseil Coton-Anacarde) are public regulatory bodies; the Conseil du Café-Cacao is listed among the structures under the agriculture ministry, and press reports say the Coton-Anacarde board was recomposed to include representatives of the shea and mango interprofessions.[17][19]

Sources

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  1. 1.Cote d'Ivoire: Cacao - Le Conseil du Café-Cacao lance l'identification des petits transformateurs — allAfrica (fr)
  2. 2.Côte d'Ivoire : Le Conseil du Café-Cacao lance la procédure d'identification des petits transformateurs — L'Infodrome
  3. 3.Cote d'Ivoire: Développement de l'agriculture au pays - Le Premier ministre lance le processus de formulation du Pnia 3 — allAfrica (fr)
  4. 4.Côte d'Ivoire-AIP / Le ministre Bruno Koné dresse le bilan 2025 du secteur agricole et annonce les perspectives du PNIA III — Agence Ivoirienne de Presse (AIP)
  5. 5.Guichet unique des formalités d'entreprises — CEPICI
  6. 6.Créer une société via le Guichet Unique du CEPICI — eRegulations Côte d'Ivoire
  7. 7.Directions Générales (Direction du Foncier Rural) — Ministère de l'Agriculture, du Développement Rural et des Productions Vivrières
  8. 8.National Standards and Certification Organism - CODINORM — Portail web d'informations commerciales (GUCE Côte d'Ivoire)
  9. 9.Côte d'Ivoire Country Commercial Guide - Standards for Trade — U.S. International Trade Administration
  10. 10.Présentation — ANADER
  11. 11.Ressources — Agence Côte d'Ivoire Export
  12. 12.Agence PME — Ministère de la Promotion des PME, de l'Artisanat et de la Transformation du Secteur Informel
  13. 13.Fonds Interprofessionnel pour la Recherche et le Conseil Agricoles (FIRCA) — Green Climate Fund
  14. 14.Côte d'Ivoire : Le Conseil coton-anacarde-karité met les unités de transformation de noix de cajou aux standards internationaux — Afrik Soir
  15. 15.Ministère de l'Agriculture, du Développement Rural, et des Productions Vivrières — Portail web d'informations commerciales (GUCE Côte d'Ivoire)
  16. 16.Projets — Ministère de l'Agriculture, du Développement Rural et des Productions Vivrières
  17. 17.Conseil du Café-Cacao (structure sous tutelle) — Ministère de l'Agriculture, du Développement Rural et des Productions Vivrières
  18. 18.Présentation (ANADER) — ANADER
  19. 19.Côte d'Ivoire : le gouvernement étend à la mangue le dispositif de régulation des filières coton et anacarde — Sika Finance (press)
  20. 20.Certification numérique : fluidifier le commerce du cacao en Côte d'Ivoire — Banque mondiale (blog Nasikiliza)
  21. 21.Agence Côte d'Ivoire Export - Plateforme d'exportation ivoirienne — Agence Côte d'Ivoire Export
  22. 22.Le FIRCA, porte d'entrée du financement vert en Côte d'Ivoire — FIRCA
  23. 23.L'Agence Côte d'Ivoire PME cède la place à la société d'Etat Côte d'Ivoire PME — Abidjan.net News (press)
  24. 24.Association Nationale des Organisations Professionnelles Agricoles de Côte d'Ivoire (ANOPACI) — UPADI
  25. 25.OCPV - Office d'aide à la Commercialisation des Produits Vivriers — OCPV
  26. 26.Première cotation sur la BMPA-CI : un démarrage prometteur pour le marché agricole ivoirien — BRVM
  27. 27.Conseil du Coton et de l'Anacarde — PAMD-Agro (plateforme agricole publique)
  28. 28.Chambre Nationale d'Agriculture de Côte d'Ivoire : les acteurs du secteur rural réunis pour une réforme — Afrik Soir (press)
  29. 29.SIMAGRI - Prix des produits — INADES-Formation Côte d'Ivoire
  30. 30.ESA - École Supérieure d'Agronomie — INP-HB
  31. 31.Conseil du Café-Cacao (Portail web d'informations commerciales) — Guichet Unique du Commerce Extérieur / PWIC
  32. 32.Côte d'Ivoire : l'Apexi devient l'Agence Côte d'Ivoire Export — Financial Afrik (press)
  33. 33.Ministère du Commerce, de l'Industrie et de l'Artisanat - Mot du Ministre — Ministère du Commerce, de l'Industrie et de l'Artisanat
  34. 34.Commerce : la Côte d'Ivoire adopte la délivrance des certificats phytosanitaires électroniques pour les exportations de produits végétaux à partir du 03 mai 2023 — LogistAfrica (press)
  35. 35.Chambre nationale d'agriculture : le monde agricole scelle le consensus pour une réforme historique / Décret portant réorganisation : le projet validé à Yamoussoukro — Le Patriote (press)
  36. 36.Réorganisation de la Chambre nationale d'agriculture : Yamoussoukro lance une nouvelle étape de la réforme — Le Mandat Express (press)

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