According to the Ministry of Agriculture, the LVSP’s objective is to enhance value addition, improve market access, and boost the competitiveness of dairy and cereal investments.
The Support Project for the Milk Offensive in West Africa (PAOLAO), first announced in 2023, will help speed up implementation of the “Offensive Lait” strategy adopted in 2020, ECOWAS said.
The Swedish government will fund the project’s first 18-month inception phase, to be jointly implemented by the ILO and the ITC.
Ripple says it will also build on its existing retail partnerships with Target, Whole Foods and Walmart.
The investment will be put to work early next year, with the additional capacity expected to come on stream in the final quarter.