Africa

Evelyn Windhager Swanson, a longstanding supporter of TechnoServe, writes about her travels in Rwanda.

Brighton Makuvaza's experience as the administrator of TechnoServe’s Agro Innovation Zimbabwe business plan competition has shown him the promise of the agricultural sector to change lives in poor areas of Zimbabwe.

African agriculture is poised for a boom. But will increased investor and business activity translate into higher rural incomes and a better quality of life for Africa’s smallholder farmers?

A TechnoServe staffer writes about her experience at a TechnoServe training workshop for cotton farmers in Swaziland.

When setting out to design a basic finance course that could be useful across the myriad programs TechnoServe executes, we decided to try something a little different than the traditional workshop model.

In just two years, Jemima Akusika Hansen has risen from a part-time data entry clerk to the head of human resources at a cashew factory in Ghana. Her progress demonstrates how the cashew industry can create new opportunities for thousands of women in West Africa.

Mozambicans love their chicken. But in 2005, there was a good chance that the galinha found in Mozambique supermarkets was imported illegally after sitting in Middle Eastern supermarkets for a year or more.

Digital technology is helping farmers and agribusinesses build resilience, achieve scale and develop sustainable solutions.

In honor of International Cooperative Day, we look inside one Kenyan cooperative that has restructured its labor practices to improve safety and working conditions.

Dive deep into a TechnoServe project that worked to connect smallholder Mozambican cashew farmers to rewards that went far beyond just nut production. Carlos Lássimo not only learned how to be a more productive cashew farmer, but also a seedling producer, and is now sharing his knowledge and spreading the wealth in his community.