Vote for the Photo of the Month: June 2022
Our monthly photo series highlights the beauty and emotion in the lives of our clients around the world.
Ethiopia
World Food Safety Day 2022: How African Food Companies Are Improving Business and Public Health
On World Food Safety Day, watch our video to learn how TechnoServe is working with food processors and improving public health.
Vote for the Photo of the Month: May 2022
Our monthly photo series highlights the beauty and emotion in the lives of our clients around the world.
How a Kenyan Couple Sustainably Revived Their Crops
Today, Lucy lives in an improved house as her husband works on their coffee farm. But just a few years ago, coffee was a source of heartache.
Vote for the Photo of the Month: April 2022
Our monthly photo series highlights the beauty and emotion in the lives of our clients around the world.
Earth Day 2022
Around the world, climate change is making it more difficult for smallholder farmers to grow coffee. This Earth Day, take our quiz to find out what kind of coffee fits you best, then learn how TechnoServe is helping preserve this coffee through improving farmers’ resilience to climate threats.
Empowering Women in Coffee
This Women's History Month, we highlight our work promoting gender equality and women’s empowerment throughout the coffee value chain.
In Ethiopia, Better Farm Practices Help Coffee Farmers Prosper
Eight years ago, Fedila Hussein and Mustafa Tesfaye struggled to earn a living from coffee. Their coffee trees were old and were not producing enough to cover the living expenses of their family of six. After participating in a TechnoServe program, Fedila and Mustafa learned important techniques to improve their coffee yields. Today, their farm is flourishing, and they have seen a 23-fold increase in their coffee production.
An Ethiopian Coffee Farmer Elevating His Community: Meet Amanuel Belay
After growing up watching his family grow coffee on their land in the Sidama region of Ethiopia, Amanuel Belay followed suit. But years of repetitive farming practices dulled his success. An environmentally sustainable TechnoServe program changed all that – and encouraged Amanuel to start helping other farmers.
Meet the TechnoServe Fellow Who Launched a Company That’s Keeping Environmental Sustainability at the Forefront
Ariana Day Yuen is a former TechnoServe Fellow who served in Ethiopia in 2015. After her time as a Fellow, she stayed on with the TechnoServe Ethiopia team for nearly three years. Today, she is the founder of an agroforestry enterprise that partners with smallholder farmers – starting in Ethiopia – to sustainably grow, process, and market premium forest-based products.
