The World Cocoa Foundation (WCF) is pleased to welcome Dakar, Senegal-based software company Manobi as our newest member.
On joining WCF, company Founder and CEO Dr. Daniel Annerose said, “Manobi’s Africa Cocoa Village, that can safely connect millions of cocoa producers and consumers worldwide, pioneers the phygitalization of the cocoa value chain to secure global sustainability, transparency, and honorable sourcing of the smart foods of tomorrow.”
Manobi has been in business for over 10 years. Its AgCelerator platform optimizes the efficiency and performance of the cocoa value chain, by providing innovative business development services to cocoa producers and other actors in the value chain through its proprietary 360° digital platform.
The ecosystem of services developed by Manobi is designed to transform the cocoa value chain, increasing grower yields, and improving product quality, by securing grower access to good quality inputs at affordable rates–credit, insurance coverage, last mile extension services, and market linkages combined with a mobile payments system.