Revitalizing South Sudan’s Coffee Industry
TechnoServe, Nespresso and South Sudan have partnered to revitalize the country’s coffee industry, aiming to triple coffee incomes and improve household resilience.
East Africa
Coffee Initiative
The Coffee Initiative worked with local farmers in East Africa to improve agronomy and business practices, establish new coffee cooperatives and strengthen existing ones, and help cooperatives create business plans and access financing for wet mills.
Smart Duka: Empowering Shopkeepers in Nairobi
"Mom and pop” shops play a critical role in developing economies around the world. In partnership with the elea Foundation and Citi Foundation, TechnoServe is working to increase the profitability of 840 high-potential shops in Nairobi, the majority of which are women-operated or women-owned.
Partners in Food Solutions-TechnoServe Alliance
The Partners in Food Solutions (PFS)-TechnoServe Alliance matches the expertise of leading global food companies with the needs of African-based food processing companies in Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Tanzania, and Zambia.
Kenya Market Assistance Program
The Kenya Market Assistance Program helped to promote employment and income generation in various market systems in Kenya by addressing key constraints to growth in these sectors.
Girls’ Apprenticeship Program
Citi Foundation and TechnoServe are working together to reduce youth unemployment in Uganda by teaching young women the knowledge and skills needed to start their own businesses.
Linking Grain Farmers to Markets
Staple crops like maize, soy and bean can provide much more than just subsistence for smallholders, they can also increase income, create jobs and improve food security. The Storage and Proper Post-Harvest Improvements for Resource Efficiency (SAPPHIRE) program, funded by the DFID, worked to capitalize on the potential of maize and increase incomes for farmers through increasing productivity and improved aggregation.
Developing Smallholder Poultry Agribusiness
The Smallholder Poultry Agribusiness Development (SPADE) initiative aimed to sustainably improve the livelihoods of 12,000 smallholder poultry producers of indigenous chicken.
Facilitating Cotton Extension Services
Extension services are an important feature in improving cotton production for farmers in the Lake Victoria region of northwest Tanzania.
Boosting Fortified Foods
TechnoServe is working with small- and medium-sized maize, rice and sunflower oil processors to increase the supply of, and demand for, nutritious and fortified foods.
