A new joint venture between Chef Thiam’s US-based West African fonio brand Yolélé and Mali Shi SA, a shea butter manufacturer that provides income to tens of thousands of women through its proprietary sourcing operations, has received a $1.98m grant from...
Organic and non-GMO ingredient supplier Terra Ingredients has partnered with Chicagoland food business IYA Foods to rollout a flour made from fonio, which has been cultivated and consumed for centuries in West Africa.
The UK health food brand’s Fonio Ancient Super-Grain – touted as the ‘new quinoa’ – is being marketed as the alternative staple to intensively farmed cereals.
Italian firm Obà Food has received the green light from the European Commission to market the West African ancient grain called Fonio on the continent.
