Michael Hoevel, Deputy Director at Agriculture for Impact, and TechnoServe President and CEO Bruce McNamer discuss examples of how smallholders, with the right support, can access markets that help them increase their incomes and improve food security and nutrition for their families.
The Conservation Cotton Initiative in northern Uganda is helping farmers like Francis Obwona rebuild their lives after decades of violent conflict.
"If you had a magic wand and there was one thing you could change in the ecosystem for social impact, what would it be?" That was the question that Kriss Deiglmeier, Executive Director for the Center for Social Innovation at Stanford University, put to a number of her colleagues, including our President and CEO, Bruce McNamer.
Simon Winter, TechnoServe's senior vice president of development, makes a compelling case for the market system approach to development by examining the Mozambican cashew processing industry.