Helping Small Businesses Grow in Chilean Patagonia
Entrepreneurs in a remote region of Chile are taking their businesses to the next level with support from TechnoServe’s Potencia Patagonia program.
Sustainable Support for Smallholder Farmers in Peru
Geister Cachique remembers the days when he and his family depended on coca plants to earn a living. Coca, which can be processed into cocaine, was one of the only crops that would grow well on their marginal land in the community of Las Mercedes, located in Peru’s tropical San…
A New Boost for Entrepreneurs in Central America and Africa
In 2010, university student Julio Baltodano surveyed the local apparel industry in Managua, Nicaragua, and devised a clever business idea. Together with his friend Verónica Bucardo, Julio envisioned IKO Imagen as a leather and textile manufacturer that would specialize in handbags and brand merchandising, or placing company logos on t-shirts…
Hope in Haiti: Why Job Creation and Economic Development Will Drive Nation’s Recovery
Learn why job creation and economic development will drive Haiti’s recovery.
Waiting for the Mangoes to Ripen
Access to credit frees Haitian farmers to sell and invest on their own terms. As part of the Haiti Hope Project, TechnoServe and its partners have launched a pilot loan program for farmers who have difficulty accessing credit in Haiti.
Sweetening the Deal: Empowering Peruvian Chocolatiers
TechnoServe works to help farmers in San Martin, Peru increase productivity and improve the quality of their crops, promote value-added processes such as organic certification and foster related entrepreneurship and small business growth.
Entrepreneur Launches Business to Protect Ecuador’s Orchids
Dayana Miranda, left, and her team at Floare sustainably collect, cultivate, reproduce and market orchids. Ecuador has some of the highest levels of biodiversity in the world, with a vast array of plant life that includes more than 4,000 orchid species. Yet in recent years, deforestation caused by large-scale…
Peruvian Woman Turns Idea into Successful Chocolate Business
The Peruvian Amazon is one of the world´s most celebrated sources of cocoa, producing more than 26 tons of cocoa beans in 2011. In the past year, Peru exported more than $120 million worth of chocolate and cocoa beans, continuing to meet worldwide demand for the high-quality products native to…
Farmer Cooperative Promotes Education, Nutrition and Prosperity
On a farm in the northern Nicaraguan town of Chagüite Grande, Melvin Estrada tends to his cabbage crop. He and his hired workers pick the plants, inspect them for quality and load them into a truck bound for a local collection center – and eventually a major supermarket. Melvin used…
Fostering Entrepreneurship in Developing Countries
How can we stimulate entrepreneurship in the developing world? For TechnoServe, this is more than just a theoretical question.
