TechnoServe Blog
TechnoServe's blog highlights the lessons and successes from our work to help entrepreneurial men and women in the developing world build businesses that create income, opportunity and economic growth.
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
Sustainable Development: Working with TechnoServe, Coca-Cola and Others to Inspire Progress
Joe McMahan | April 24, 2012
I will never forget my first night in Kalawa village. As a Peace Corps trainee, I would be living for the next three months in a crumbling mud house in rural Kenya. My host family spoke little English and had few possessions, yet I was amazed by their friendliness and generosity. As I sat down to a dimly lit meal of goat stew, a thousand thoughts raced through my head: How would this experience change me? How could I help in a culture so different than my own? Had I made the right decision? Regardless, I was determined to make a difference.
Categories: Agriculture & Agribusiness ; East Africa
Photo Friday: Celebrating Earth’s Diversity
TechnoServe | April 20, 2012
The Earth is good to us. It offers up countless bounties that feed and sustain more than 7 billion people – from corn in the Midwest to coffee in Central America to cocoa in West Africa. On Earth Day 2012, TechnoServe joins the world in celebrating the amazing diversity of our planet – and committing to protect it.
Categories: Asia ; Central America & Caribbean ; East Africa ; South America ; Southern Africa ; Western Africa
Photo Friday: Nurturing New Opportunities for Fruit Farmers
TechnoServe | April 13, 2012
Isaac Kiriort, chairman of the Tiret Self-Help Group, and member Eusila Lelei tend purple passion fruit vines in the highlands of western Kenya. TechnoServe is helping the farming cooperative to capitalize on this new market opportunity as part of Project Nurture, a partnership with The Coca-Cola Company and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation 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
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PATRICIA M. CLOHERTY
Chairman and CEO, Delta Private Equity Partners