TechnoServe’s Dave Hale Speaks at Chainlink Smart Contracts Summit
On August 7th, the director of TechnoServe Labs shares his insights about using digital tools to build trust, cooperation, and transparency in the African food processing sector.
Making This Year Better Than the Last: A Recent Survey Assesses the Pandemic’s Impacts on Micro and Small Businesses
Juan Carlos Thomas, Director of Entrepreneurship at TechnoServe, writes about TechnoServe's report on the impacts of COVID-19 for micro-retailers in this NextBillion article.
TechnoServe Releases Ethiopian Arabica Coffee Guide to Promote Forest Conservation
TechnoServe's new forest coffee guide, titled: "Ethiopia's Forest Coffee: An Illustrated Guide", features stories, interactive maps, and photographs as highlighted in this Global Coffee Report article.
Ethiopia’s Forest Coffee Initiative Seeks to Protect and Promote
Daily Coffee News covers TechnoServe's conservation work in East Africa by featuring our new, free 70-page guidebook called Ethiopia’s Forest Coffee: An Illustrated Guide, along with an interactive online map.
New Guide Highlights Ethiopia’s Little-Known Forest Coffee
Ethiopia’s Forest Coffee: An Illustrated Guide includes information about nearly 100 cooperatives and mills that produce and sell this unique coffee
MSME Survival and Recovery Program to Support 80 Micro and Small Businesses in Nigeria
The Joint initiative by Citibank Nigeria Limited and TechnoServe Will Help Small Businesses Develop Long-Term Resiliency and Achieve Sustainable Growth
How a Global Alliance for Inclusive and Nutritious Food Processing Improves Food Safety
This article, published by Agrilinks, details the Alliance for Inclusive and Nutritious Food Processing (AINFP)—a partnership between USAID, TechnoServe and Partners in Food Solutions (PFS) that aims to create a more competitive food-processing sector in Africa—and shows how partnerships with local food processing businesses can help them improve food safety, even amid an unprecedented pandemic.
Empowering Women in Ethiopia’s Coffee Sector
This piece in The Borgen Project Magazine features ways in which international nonprofits are working towards female empowerment in Ethiopia, including the “AAA Sustainable Quality” training program, a joint venture between Nespresso and Technoserve, which works with smallholder coffee farmers to become more sustainable and profitable.
Training and Micro Loans Help Small Businesses Weather COVID
Cyprian Amakalu, mSPARK Programme Manager at TechnoServe, talks about the Micro-Enterprises Strengthened for Pandemic Adaptation and Resilience in Kenya (mSPARK) programme, launched by TechnoServe and the Mastercard Foundation, which gives digital and financial support to micro, small and medium-sized enterprises to help them survive the pandemic.
New Study: Incentives Could Help Ethiopia’s Coffee Farmers Dramatically Increase Yields and Incomes
The study found that farmers who were offered agricultural tools were more likely to rejuvenate their coffee trees through stumping, an important agricultural practice
