Sweet Empowerment: Taking on a Leadership Role
As chairwoman of the Mababu Farmer Business Group, Mizinala Lutolo is increasing revenue while honing her leadership skills.
Promoting a Savings Culture in Tanzania
A 25-year-old entrepreneur is educating young people in her community on the benefits of mobile financial solutions.
Q&A: Sustainable and Scalable Business Models for Linking Agriculture and Technology
TechnoServe's Michael Elliott discusses the successes, challenges and future of information and communications technologies for agriculture.
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.
Transcending Boundaries in Agriculture: The Connected Farmer Alliance
Creative mobile solutions are addressing major challenges in the agriculture industry, providing benefits for both farmers and agribusinesses.
Q&A: Former TechnoServe Fellow Launches Nonprofit in India
Aditya Gupta discusses his experience working with TechnoServe in East Africa, and how it motivated him to launch an organization that is addressing the issue of violence against women.
Cultivating Women’s Participation: Strategies for Gender-Responsive Agriculture Programming
Technical brief from the International Center for Research on Women highlighting the gender approach in TechnoServe’s Coffee Initiative in Tanzania.
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.
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.
