Africa

TechnoServe shares research and guidelines for improving coffee cup quality and wet mill profitability.

It’s a new year, and there’s a new set of international development jargon to disentangle. Check out the list below, and let us know if there are any other development terms we should cover in the future.

By partnering to develop innovative solutions, we can tackle both the challenge of food waste along the supply chain and the pressing issue of food security among low-income populations, ultimately creating a more sustainable and equitable food system.

How much do you know about global poverty? Take our quiz to learn common facts and clear misconceptions about this critical issue.

In 2012, Lubaba Mekonnen joined a TechnoServe program that supported coffee farmers in her community. We reconnected with Lubaba in 2020 and again in 2024 to see how her life changed in the decade since first joining the program.

Our monthly photo series highlights the beauty and emotion in the lives of our clients around the world. This February, witness different facets of love–parental, communal, and environmental–that motivate our clients to lift themselves, their families, and their communities out of poverty.

Marine ecosystems sustain livelihoods and biodiversity in Kenya. Learn how seagrass conservation is helping coastal communities thrive.

Cooperative leaders like Nelson Kimani have a clear job: improving the incomes and livelihoods of their member farmers. So when the chairman of the New Murarandia Farmers’ Cooperative Society in Murang’a County, Kenya, heard about the new European deforestation regulations, he wondered how they would impact the cooperative…

The coming year promises to be an important one for the fight against poverty. We asked TechnoServe leaders around the globe to tell us what they are looking forward to in 2025.