agrofood West Africa is finally back in Abidjan!
Afrik’Embal to be held alongside agrofood 2024

After the great success of agrofood & plastprintpack West Africa in Abidjan in 2018 and a long Covid-related break, fairtrade and their local Ivorian partners 2A are now coming back to Côte d'Ivoire and Francophone West Africa with agrofood West Africa 2024.

agrofood West Africa will take place in conjunction with plastprintpack West Africa in the brand-new Abidjan Parc des Expositions from 08 to 10 October 2024.

In addition to Côte d'Ivoire, fairtrade in West Africa serves Nigeria with the agrofood Nigeria, and Ghana with agrofood Ghana.

The core themes of agrofood & Afrik'Embal 2024 are

• Food safety
  and
• Reduction of food waste.

The exhibition will be complemented by panel discussions and lectures on these topics.

• Ministry of State, Ministry of Agriculture, Rural Development and Food Production of Côte d'Ivoire
• Ministry of Trade and Industry of Côte d'Ivoire
• APECI - Association of Packaging Professionals in Côte d'Ivoire
• Embassies of Austria, France, Germany, India, Italy, the Netherlands and Türkiye

Food & packaging technology: With imports of such technology of 93 million euros in 2022, Côte d'Ivoire is the second largest investor in food & packaging technology in West Africa after Nigeria. (VDMA)

Packaging technology: Ivorian imports of packaging technology climbed from 24 million euros in 2020 to 36 million euros in 2022. (VDMA)

Food trade with Côte d'Ivoire: With a trade volume of USD 11.3 billion, Côte d'Ivoire is the largest food market in West Africa, ahead of Nigeria with USD 8.9 billion. According to the World Trade Organisation (WTO), Côte d'Ivoire imported food worth USD 3.1 billion and exported food worth USD 8.2 billion in 2021. This makes the food trade with Côte d'Ivoire an 11.3 billion USD business.

Food & beverage ingredients: With a population of well over 420 million (2022), which according to the World Bank will rise to 800 million by 2050, West Africa is a huge food market. Expenditure in the F&B sector is growing steadily, and F&B production is by far the largest segment of the West African processing industry. Accordingly, the demand for food and beverage ingredients is rising continuously.

West Africa's food and packaging technology imports grew from €496 million in 2015 to €750 million in 2022, which corresponds to an annual increase of 6.1% between 2015 and 2022. (VDMA)

The 5th edition of agrofood & plastprintpack West Africa took place at the Radisson Blu Hotel Abidjan Airport in Abidjan from 20 to 22 November 2018.

80 exhibitors from 17 countries participated, among them many of the world's leading companies in their sector. The exhibitors came from Austria, China, France, Germany, India, Italy, Ivory Coast, Morocco, Netherlands, Nigeria, Russia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Tunisia, Turkey, United Kingdom and USA.

The remarkable number of 1,461 high quality visitors discussed their investments as 53% of the visitors planned to invest over the next 12 months.

50 speakers from around the globe enriched the 3-day conference program including the Bosch seminar & the VDMA symposium.