Peru

Stories from this year that demonstrate how TechnoServe is meeting this challenge with a bold commitment to help create a people-, nature-, and climate-positive world.

We’re sharing recipes straight from the kitchens of the men and women TechnoServe works with around the world.

Dara Obispo first started working with TechnoServe as a teenage single mother in 2020. Here's an update on how she's doing today.

Our monthly photo series highlights the beauty and emotion in the lives of our clients around the world.

There is a clear need to help farmers adopt alternatives, not just in the face of the fertilizer crisis, but in the longer term as well. Read more from Agrilinks.

Many popular foods and beverages are grown by smallholder farmers around the world. These farmers are experiencing increasing challenges as they struggle to grow their crops in the face of extreme weather, droughts, floods, and other threats. Learn about a few of the crops most affected by climate change and what TechnoServe is doing to help these farmers build climate resilience.

The women behind Mishky Cacao decided to create a safer future for their families and community – transitioning from coca to cocoa production and generating new value by manufacturing chocolate.

Meet Dara Obispo, a 19-year-old single mother living in Peru’s Amazon basin. With tailored agronomy and financial literacy training, she has increased her cocoa production seven-fold — and gained a new outlook on life.

From Ethiopia to Peru, a highly efficient, natural technology is being implemented to help wetlands recover: vetiver grass. Learn how it works in Peru – and how it helps coffee farmer Emilia Lozada send her children to school.

Ermelinda Vargas Paye, owner of Hostel Mary in the city of Moquegua, Peru, won’t let COVID-19 steal her spirit – or her livelihood. A lifelong attitude of determination, and business training from TechnoServe, prepared her to lead her enterprise through the pandemic.