The quality of cashew produced from country to country and region to region determines the reputation as well as the competitiveness of the product on the international market. The price that farmers may expect is directly linked to the quality of their produce. It is important; therefore, to teach farmers who may not have any or limited knowledge about how to assess the quality of nuts about exactly what determines whether their product is of high quality, meeting the demands of what consumers want. This simple, well-illustrated technical manual is used as training material by the African Cashew initiative and functions as a tool via which farmers may be taught how to assess and recognize good quality nuts. Not only does it demonstrate how to do this, but it also displays which tools and mechanisms may be used to implement this, providing information on the physical criteria used worldwide, across the cashew producing industry.