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The National Coffee Association recently named TechnoServe the “Origin Charity of the Year” for our work supporting smallholder coffee farmers around the world.

“Ask a TechnoServe Expert” is a series where our staff members, who work on a range of important global development issues, answer questions from you. In this edition, Cristina Manfre, TechnoServe’s global gender director, talks about creating economic opportunities for women around the world.

Helping women achieve their full potential is one of the most powerful ways to fight poverty, yet many women still face immense challenges on a daily basis. Take our quiz to find out how much you know about women’s economic empowerment.

Chocolate is one of the world’s most popular foods, but who actually grows the cocoa that serves as the base for this delicious treat? Meet a few of the farmers who are changing their lives using income from cocoa.

Technology can be a powerful tool for improving lives in the developing world – but only if it is deployed in the right way, considering local needs foremost. TechnoServe works with pioneering tech partners to develop and scale up solutions to poverty around the world.

Through TechnoServe’s work with over 8,000 shopkeepers in more than half a dozen countries, we have identified four skills that all microretailers need in order to transform their businesses – and their lives.

TechnoServe President and CEO William Warshauer joins Denver Frederick, host of The Business of Giving, to discuss how TechnoServe’s business approach creates long-term impact; the keys to reducing poverty in the future; and what he finds “nuts” about the development field.

TechnoServe staff are going beyond their usual program work to support coffee communities in southern Puerto Rico after a recent series of earthquakes.

By supporting innovation and the transfer of technology between regions, TechnoServe is helping women farmers improve their production and their lives.

In Tanzania, women entrepreneurs are overcoming barriers to their business success with mobile savings strategies.