Learn how Ontifile Gaokgorwe overcame the odds to secure a major loan, buy her school's building, and scale her life-changing impact to 150 students in Botswana.
Our monthly photo series highlights the beauty and emotion in the lives of our clients around the world. This month, as we continue to recognize the International Year of the Woman Farmer, we look at women working across food systems, from farms to processing and retail.
Learn how a Mozambican farmer turned her harvest into a thriving business and is now reshaping her community, one bean pastry at a time.
The world produces food at enormous scale, yet millions of people still struggle to access a nutritious diet. Why? This blog challenges five common assumptions about hunger and explores how income, markets, farming, food processing, and economic opportunity shape what ultimately reaches people’s plates.
Learn about the important role of farmers in the agriculural and food supply chain in this comprehensive overview.
Are you an informed global citizen? Test your knowledge of current events with our August 2026 world news quiz.
Global Coffee Director Paul Stewart shares three key takeaways from TechnoServe and Sustainable Food Lab's new report on how adopting regenerative practices affects coffee-farming households' ability to earn a living income.
Teresa Morgado, 47, relies on her farm in Nampula Province, Mozambique, to support her family. Like many women farmers in Mozambique, she managed her production for years without a defined plan, selling what she harvested and buying what she needed. That is, until a radio soap opera showed her a different way of working.
Women have long played an essential role in coffee farming in Guatemala, contributing to harvesting, pulping, and tending nurseries. Yet their work is often viewed as secondary, and they rarely receive the same social or economic recognition.
National Coffee Day 2026 falls on Tuesday, September 29. It is celebrated in the United States on the same date every year. This year, coffee lovers can learn where coffee beans come from and how your daily cup of brew can transform the lives and livelihoods of smallholder coffee farmers around the world.
