Q&A: The Role of Agribusiness in Youth Unemployment
Rural development expert Cleopatra Ngulube explores the role of agribusiness in addressing youth unemployment.
Expanding Opportunities Through Small Retailers in Nigeria
Substantial research highlights a critical need for business skills training among owners of "mom and pop" shops in urban areas. Launched in July 2015, the Digitizing Mom and Pop Shops program was a two-year partnership between Citi Foundation and TechnoServe to increase the financial return and growth of small retail shops in Abuja, Nigeria.
Designing Programs that Work in Diverse Settings
The Mobile Training Program demonstrates how innovative projects can be adapted to achieve success in different contexts and geographies.
Juicing Success in Burkina Faso
TechnoServe’s business accelerator program in Burkina Faso is connecting entrepreneurs with business advisors to help grow the next generation of businesses.
Bigger Harvests, Brighter Horizons in Ghana
TechnoServe helped to show how a new way of working with the supply chain can unlock the potential of Ghana’s smallholder farmers.
Helping Nigeria’s Cashew Farmers Reach Their Potential
Through a $1 million grant from the Walmart Foundation, TechnoServe helped raise the incomes of 6,000 Nigerian cashew farmers through training on good agronomic practices, farming as a business, and improved methods for harvest and post-harvest handling.
Cocoa Farmers Band Together For Profits
The members of the Muoho Cocoa Farmer Group are hard at work, even as the sound of their laughter echoes through the cocoa forest. They sit around a huge mound of harvested cocoa pods. Each one must be broken open to remove the pulp and beans inside, a job that…
Raising Rural Incomes: Propcom Mai-Karfi
TechnoServe was an implementing partner in Propcom Mai-Karfi, a six-year program working to increase the incomes of 650,000 people in northern Nigeria, half of them women.
Enhancing Food and Income Security
TechnoServe helped farmers in marginalized areas of northern Ghana to earn more for their crops while ensuring a better food supply for the region.
Making Cocoa More Profitable
Ghana is one of the world's top producers of cocoa, a highly-demanded export crop grown by an estimated 700,000 farmers.
