How Climate-Smart Cashews Nourish Gender Equity and Environmental Sustainability
Climate change threatens to reshape our world, but its effects will not be distributed equally. Read more from Agrilinks.
How Climate-Smart Cashews Nourish Gender Equity and Environmental Sustainability
Cristina Manfre, Global Gender Director and Devon Melville, Deputy Chief of Party, BeninCajù, identify program climate-smart agriculture (CSA) practices and gender equity outcomes from the eight-year United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)-funded project.
Creating Change Through Cocoa in Ghana: Q&A With Former Fellow Yash Mehta
Yash Mehta is a former TechnoServe Fellow who worked remotely in Ghana earlier this year, where he helped a cocoa processing company improve its business plan and support smallholder farmers to increase their yields and incomes. In this Q&A, Yash shares what his remote fellowship experience was like and how it positively impacted his career path.
Farmers See the Benefits of Vetiver Wetlands and Regenerative Agriculture in Peru
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.
What is High-Margin Agriculture? Learn the Essentials From Matt Foerster, TechnoServe’s New Director of Agricultural Markets
Matt Foerster joined TechnoServe earlier this year as our new director of agricultural markets. With over 15 years of experience, Matt is overseeing TechnoServe’s large portfolio of work in commercial agriculture. Here we ask Matt about the most important issues in agriculture today – and its critical role in reducing poverty.
Making a Lasting Impact: Q&A with Rob Johnson, Former TechnoServe Fellow and Social Enterprise Entrepreneur
Rob Johnson is a former TechnoServe Fellow who worked in Haiti in 2011 performing a poultry value chain assessment. After his time as a Fellow, Rob returned to serve as a program manager in the TechnoServe Haiti Office. He then launched a social enterprise in Haiti called Acceso, which works to improve smallholder farmer income through inclusive value chains. In this Q&A, Rob shares how TechnoServe played a foundational role in his life and social enterprise career.
Global Launch of the Great Blue Wall
A Movement to Conserve and Restore Marine and Coastal Biodiversity while Unlocking the Development of a Regenerative Sustainable Blue Economy
Innovative Business Owner Plays Her Part in Conserving Lake Malawi’s Shoreline Biodiversity
In Malawi, a business owner is using her social enterprise to help diversify incomes in her community – and it's helping rejuvenate a depleted Lake Malawi.
From Nicaragua to Denmark: Don Alfonso Sees Chocolate Success Abroad but Faces Climate Change Challenges at Home
A cacao farmer in Nicaragua reaches the global stage as his chocolate rolls off a conveyor belt in Denmark. But not everything goes as planned. It isn’t long before climate change tests his resilience.
From One of the World’s Best Restaurants to the Farms of Peru
In 2019, Kyle and Katina Connaughton, owners/operators of SingleThread Farms, traveled to Peru through the Chefs for Change initiative – a program that connects the world’s best chefs to smallholder farmers in developing countries.
