TechnoServe serves as the manager of the Technical Assistance Facility (TAF), which supports the African Agriculture... Fund, a private equity fund, to address food security challenges across Africa. TAF provides technical assistance to small- and medium-sized enterprises invested in by the African Agriculture Fund, and improves linkages between enterprises and smallholder outgrowers.

TechnoServe is partnering with the MasterCard Foundation to help rural young women and men in East Africa transition to... economic independence. The Strengthening Rural Youth Development through Enterprise (STRYDE) program delivers a comprehensive package of services including skills training, business development and mentoring to young people ages 18 to 30 in Kenya, Rwanda and Uganda.

A partnership with The Coca-Cola Company and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Project Nurture aims to help more... than 50,000 small-scale mango and passion fruit farmers in Kenya and Uganda double their fruit incomes. In addition to identifying new market opportunities, TechnoServe advisors are working with farmers to improve productivity and develop strong farmer business groups.

Funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and implemented in partnership with Heifer International, East Africa... Dairy Development (EADD) aims to double the dairy incomes of 179,000 smallholder farm families in Kenya, Uganda and Rwanda. The program facilitates improved dairy production, business practices and market access by developing chilling plant hubs.

Yes Youth Can! (YYC!) is a program that seeks to empower youth in Kenya to promote their own development and become... responsible citizens for peace and prosperity. To achieve this goal, YYC! works to build the capacity of youth, youth groups and youth-serving organizations to engage with each other, with business markets, government and communities. YYC! seeks to establish a national and county-level network to improve youth leadership as well as a think tank to inform youth-led advocacy agendas for policy engagement.

Working in partnership with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation since 2007, the Coffee Initiative aims to increase... coffee incomes by 64 percent for 6,000 smallholder Kenyan farmers. The country’s climate, geography and soil conditions help it to produce some of the world's best coffee. But sub-optimal farming and processing practices limit the quality and quantity of coffee that smallholders produce, and poor market links limit their ability to sell it. We are working with smallholder coffee farmers to improve their cultivation, milling and marketing practices in order to increase the quality and quantity of their coffee and command higher prices. These interventions will help thousands of farmers to double their incomes over the next few years. TechnoServe recognizes the important role played by women in coffee production and actively encourages their women. Women account for 31 percent of our farmer trainers and female attendance at the farm college averages 42 percent.

The Agribusiness Development Program (ADP) offers business support services to more than 14,400 small-scale dairy... farmers, organizes farmers into dairy business hubs, and builds the capacity of business managers and employees. Notably, the program helped establish the first dairy plant in Kenya owned almost entirely by women from the Maasai community; situated in Kajiado County, the Maasai Women’s Dairy Co-operative aims to improve the livelihoods of over 10,000 pastoralist women and their households by increasing dairy milk production, consumption and market access. Farmers are also trained on natural resource management best practices including using renewable energy sources, tree planting and water harvesting.

The Smallholder Poultry Agribusiness Development (SPADE) initiative aims to sustainably improve the livelihoods of... 12,000 smallholder poultry producers of indigenous chicken. Operating in Western and Nyanza provinces, SPADE comprises three primary activities: sustainably improving smallholder farmer poultry production; expanding access to financial services for smallholder poultry farmers; and improving poultry market access for smallholder poultry farmers.

The Connected Farmer Alliance is a public-private partnership that seeks to promote commercially sustainable mobile... agriculture solutions and increase productivity and revenues for 500,000 smallholder farmers across Kenya, Tanzania and Mozambique. The program also aims to increase revenues for agribusinesses and agricultural value chain service providers. The three-year program, which launched in 2012, will explore the design and implementation of mobile phone- and internet-based business support applications.