Projects

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.

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.

The Smallholder Poultry Agribusiness Development (SPADE) initiative aims to sustainably improve the livelihoods of 12,000 smallholder poultry producers of indigenous chicken.

TechnoServe implemented an 18-month pilot program to strengthen Zimbabwe’s poultry industry. In partnership with DAPP Zimbabwe, TechnoServe tested new models of linking poultry companies with small-scale chicken outgrowers, aiming to raise the incomes of more than 70 outgrowers by at least $1,000 each per year.

In 2006, the U.S. Department of Agriculture awarded TechnoServe a grant under the Food for Progress Program to develop the country’s poultry industry. Our work has directly impacted the incomes of more than two million Mozambican smallholder farmers, as maize and soy are the key ingredients used for poultry feed.

Beekeeping is one of the major livelihood activities in the departments of Colón and Ocotepeque, providing income and other benefits like food, nutrition and medicine. TechnoServe is promoting sustainable beekeeping in these communities by organizing groups of beekeepers and providing business training and consulting.

In order to improve the income of 20,000 rural smallholder producers through increased production and marketing, TechnoServe is implementing Ganadería Empresarial (GANE), a Nicaraguan livestock initiative. GANE will position Nicaragua’s livestock industry to compete on a global scale.

BAIF Development Research Foundation has pioneered a unique doorstep delivery model of providing breeding services (artificial insemination) to cattle owners, through its Cattle Development Centers (CDCs). TechnoServe carried out research and business strategy planning, assisting BAIF to scale up from 1,700 to 3,000 CDCs across Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra states.

Together with several partners, TechnoServe supports the development of small-scale milk producers in the state of Jalisco as they improve the management of their farms and therefore increase their family income. TechnoServe collaborates with Danone to link 300 small-scale dairy farmers to their value chain, ensuring a market for their milk.

TechnoServe, with financing from the Millennium Challenge Corporation, helped a group of dairy farmers and processing plants in northern El Salvador gain access to higher-paying export markets by improving the milking process, modernizing plants and establishing links with buyers. The program created nearly 1,000 new jobs over two years.

In 2007, TechnoServe was selected by the U.S. Government’s Millennium Challenge Account (MCA) to implement its flagship Livestock Cluster Development Project in Western Nicaragua. This highly successful project helped 1,700 farmers, of whom 23 percent were women, increase their incomes by over 60 percent within three years.

Through a grant from the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization’s Swaziland Agricultural Development Program (SADP), TechnoServe will continue the expansion of the honey (beekeeping) program through the development of a lead beekeeper initiative.