Africa

Small Fields, Big Harvests

After struggling to make ends meet, Tabitha Muthoni has realized her full potential as a successful farm owner and business person with support from the Mavuno Zaidi Program in Kenya.

Stories From The Field: Moritz Steinle, TechnoServe Fellow, In Uganda

Moritz Steinle, TechnoServe Fellow, supports farmers’ cooperatives in Uganda. How can I help these farmers without any previous experience in agriculture? Will I really have an impact? How long will it take me to adjust to the local culture? How will it be to travel across the country in…

Stories From The Field: Jana Nurmukhanova In Ghana

Jana Nurmukhanova, TechnoServe Fellow, Supports High-Potential SMEs Ghana. I grew up in the country of Kazakhstan during the change and hardship of the post-Soviet era. My mother was a small entrepreneur, not by choice but by necessity. While working as a chemical engineer, she had to start her own…

CASHEW PREMIUM MARKETS: Traceability and Transparency

Increasingly, global consumers want to know about the origin of their food. Efficient, transparent supply chain management systems allow for the tracking of a product from harvest through transport, storage, processing, and commercialization. Information collected along the way helps to enhance supply-side management, mitigate risks to food safety, and facilitate…