What does the taste of your morning coffee have to do with the livelihoods of millions of farmers? In this article, Paul Stewart explains how boosting coffee quality is one of the keys to ensuring that smallholder farmers earn higher incomes and shows how this change can transform entire communities.
From the use of drone technology in agriculture to the development of sustainable coffee supply chains, these are our top five stories from 2019.
Earlier this month, women leaders in northern Nigeria gathered in Jigawa state for the first annual Rural Women Leadership Forum hosted by TechnoServe and the ExxonMobil Foundation.
Honduran coffee farmers like Rito Girón Hernández are improving their farm productivity and increasing their incomes through the PROLEMPA program.
A corporate partnership training farmers in Madhya Pradesh, India, on climate-smart agricultural techniques was just named “Best Economic Empowerment Program”.
Dave Hale outlines how technology can be used to make farming more inclusive through three critical factors: setting targets, working with local partners, and keeping the end-user in mind.
Through the ResCA program, cattle ranchers in Nicaragua are learning techniques to improve resilience to climate threats.
In the next part of our consumer spotlight series, we are highlighting the unique profile of Guatemalan coffee. TechnoServe partnered with Peet’s Coffee to support small-scale coffee farmers in the Alotenango region of Guatemala.
The global coffee price crisis has drawn headlines around the world. But rather than view it as an isolated phenomenon, we must view at as part of a larger set of challenges affecting coffee farmers. To truly change the outlook for the world’s 12 million coffee-farming families, we must address…
In the next part of our consumer spotlight series, we are highlighting the unique profile of Peruvian coffee. In Peru, TechnoServe works with coffee farmers in former coca-growing regions through the Coffee Alliance for Excellence (CAFE) program.
