vue - Cracking the Nut: CARE's Cashew Nut Value Chain Initiative

CARE India has implemented the cashew value chain initiative with support of the Wal-Mart foundation. This program aims to empower marginalized women through engagement in the cashew value chain by creating women owned and managed cashew processing businesses. The goal of this initiative is to provide over 1,250 marginalized women with improved livelihood options and skills in two cashew growing districts in Tamil Nadu. Women's empowerment and enterprise are the focus points of this initiative, and to achieve this, an integrated approach has been followed by building the capacities of the producing companies, in terms of their governance structures and cashew processing skills, and allow companies to generate profit through this program.