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TechnoServe in the News (selected media hits about our work)

• "Talks on Improving Fruit Production in Uganda Begin," The Guardian's Katine Chronicles Blog, 2/26/10. (Article profiles TechnoServe's African fruit program done in cooperation with The Coca-Cola Company and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.)

• "U.S. Cash Flow Aids Economy, Lending," The Miami Herald, 12/29/09. (Highlighting beneficiaries of TechnoServe's Latin American remittance program and the impact the flow of cash has on local economies.)

• "Lending Talent, and Money, on a Micro Scale," The New York Times, 6/24/09. (Article highlights TechnoServe's work in Nicaragua to help individuals start and run their own businesses as a means to alleviate poverty on a long-term basis.)

• "Rwanda's High-end Hopes for Coffee," Frontline World, 10/30/08. (Article discusses TechnoServe's work to develop a specialty coffee industry in Rwanda. Part of a series focusing on current development initiatives in Rwanda. Video also avaialable.)

• GlobeSpotting with Steve Hamm, Business Week, 08/08/08. (Business Week reporter interviews Tanzania Country Director Hillary Miller-Wise and Coffee Initiative Director Tim King.)

• Christian Science Monitor article about TechnoServe’s work to revitalize Mozambique’s cashew industry, 07/24/08.

• “Gates Foundation Unveils $306 Million in Agricultural Grants,” The Chronicle of Philanthropy, 01/25/08. (Article quotes TechnoServe CEO Bruce McNamer on our new coffee initiative in East Africa, funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.)

• "A study in African ingenuity," Financial Times, 01/13/08. (Article discusses TechnoServe chairman of the board Paul Tierney's position as co-teacher of Entrepreneurship in Africa course at Columbia Business School.)

• “How to make a little go a long way,” Financial Times, 12/16/07. (Article highlights TechnoServe employee Pauline Mwangi’s work on the Young Women in Enterprise program in Kenya.)

• "Corporate Citizenship and Philanthropy," Financial Times Special Report, 07/05/07. (Article ranks TechnoServe fourth on its list of best global NGOs to partner with.)
   
• "Nicaragua se cuela en el mundo del cacao fino," El Nuevo Diario, 6/28/2007. (Article discusses Nicaragua's potential to become a leading world exporter of fine cocoa. Article is in Spanish.)
   
• "TechnoServe launches new program in Rwanda," Coffee and Cocoa International, 03/28/07. (Article discusses the replication of TechnoServe's coffee work in Rwanda.)