Time to Get Comfortable with Complexity: Insights from TechnoServe’s East Africa Coffee Initiative
This post by Business Fights Poverty explores key insights from the Harvard Kennedy School's report on TechnoServe’s East Africa Coffee Initiative.
Kenya
“Seeing is Believing” for Rural Farming Communities
Peter Rotich, a maize farmer in Kenya, demonstrates a sustainable model for increasing rural smallholders’ access to mechanized services and best agricultural practices.
Building Healthier Businesses and Communities through Food Fortification
Food processing businesses are working to end hunger by increasing their capacity to provide quality, nutritious fortified foods for local communities.
Turning Cycles of Poverty into Cycles of Prosperity with Seeds
TechnoServe seed projects offer simple solutions to the barriers women face when adopting best practices and offer inclusive growth for farming communities.
Strengthening African Processors of Fortified Foods
“Hidden hunger” is a form of undernutrition affecting millions of people in sub-Saharan Africa. Food fortification is a cost-effective strategy for addressing hidden hunger, helping people to access the nutrition they need.
How to Grow a Healthy Mango
As farmers from South Asia to East Africa to Latin America can attest, there is a lot of know-how and hard work behind those sweet and juicy fruits.
Confident Youth Reclaim their Future
As a single mother of two with little formal education, Prisca Cherono couldn’t find any viable employment opportunities in Eldoret, Kenya. So she pursued the only path she thought was open to her: domestic help. “I had resigned myself to do this until I die because I saw no…
One-Stop Shop for a Better Business
Simple changes learned from TechnoServe's Smart Duka program help shop owners in informal settlements of Nairobi to improve their businesses and their livelihoods.
Reducing Waste in Fruit Production
Kenyan farmers and businesses are improving the mango value chain through sustainable post-harvest handling practices and technologies.
TechnoServe Initiative for Inclusive Agricultural Business Models: Syngenta
Case study documenting how TechnoServe and Syngenta are addressing barriers to adoption of high-quality agricultural inputs among Kenyan potato and tomato smallholder farmers.
