When young entrepreneurs have the tools they need to thrive, the benefits ripple out into the community. In Nairobi, Alex Amwai turned his experience as a shop attendant into a growing retail enterprise that supports his family, creates jobs, and helps meet his community’s everyday needs.
When an agricultural sector grows, farmers aren’t the only ones who benefit. In Peru, Iván Ramos built a successful company manufacturing products to make coffee farmers’ work easier and more profitable.
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.
Through TechnoServe’s work with shopkeepers in more than half a dozen countries, we have identified four skills that all microretailers need to transform their businesses and lives.
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.
