TechnoServe Blog: Agriculture & Agribusiness
Photo Friday: Happy Mother’s Day!
TechnoServe | May 11, 2012
Aura Rosa Morales stands with her daughter on her farm near Nueva Guinea, Nicaragua. Aura is working with TechnoServe to improve the productivity of her farm and increase her income. This work will help her provide a better future for her daughter.
Categories: Agriculture & Agribusiness ; Central America & Caribbean
Partnership Creates New Source of Income for Farmers in Brazil
TechnoServe | May 08, 2012
In the south of the Brazilian state of Bahia, three organizations are uniting to implement an economic development project that is generating benefits for 60 farmers who live on settlements created after agrarian reform.
Categories: Agriculture & Agribusiness ; South America
Partnering to Improve Food and Nutrition Security in Africa
Simon Winter | May 01, 2012
Transforming poor people's food and nutrition security is proving to be, as expected, a massive challenge. As we approach a slew of global meetings that will address this topic in the coming months, the German Marshall Fund (GMF) has released a new report that showcases the need for and complexities of multi-stakeholder partnerships in support of this goal in Africa.
Categories: Agriculture & Agribusiness ; Building Business & Industry ; East Africa ; Improving the Business Environment
Photo Friday: Growing Trees, Growing Incomes
TechnoServe | April 27, 2012
Diomedes Lopez of the Jorge Salazar Cooperative points to a tiny cocoa pod growing on a tree in northern Nicaragua. Today is Arbor Day, an opportunity for people across the world to plant and care for trees. For many of TechnoServe’s clients, trees are central to their livelihoods.
Categories: Agriculture & Agribusiness ; Central America & Caribbean
TechnoServe’s Work With Fruit Farmers in East Africa Highlighted in the Financial Times
TechnoServe | April 25, 2012
In a special report on sustainable business, the Financial Times examines how major corporations are increasingly working to source products from smallholder farmers in developing countries. The report cites Project Nurture, a partnership with TechnoServe, The Coca-Cola Company and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation that aims to double the fruit incomes of more than 50,000 small-scale mango and passion fruit farmers in Kenya and Uganda.
Categories: Agriculture & Agribusiness ; East Africa
"One lesson I have learned from institutions like TechnoServe is that with concentrated effort...coupled with knowledge, finance and committed people on the ground, you will successfully advance rural economic development."
BASIL MRAMBA
Former Minister of Finance, Tanzania