Agriculture

In sub-Saharan Africa, TechnoServe is testing sustainable, cost-effective, and measurable innovations for development. A surprising potential win for smallholders: drone technology.

In Uganda, TechnoServe and the Mastercard Foundation partnered to scale youth innovations in the agri-food sector, increasing food security and farmer earnings.

"Ask a TechnoServe Expert" is a series where our staff members, who work on a range of important global development issues, answer your questions. In this edition, Director of Strategic Initiatives Myriam Sainz answered your questions about corporate partnerships.

TechnoServe’s projects yield a wealth of lessons that can help us – and others – improve our work. In this series, we reflect on the lessons we have learned from our programs in Africa, India, and Latin America, sharing insights from program staff.

In Zimbabwe, smallholder coffee farmers like Tanyaradzwa Makina are gaining a new outlook on life through Nespresso’s Reviving Origins program.

In San Martin, the Apahuit cooperative is working alongside TechnoServe and their farmer members to implement simple, ecofriendly techniques that boost their cocoa yields, improve incomes, and fight deforestation.

As more young people in rural East Africa turn to agriculture, visionaries like Samson Mwaikenda are modernizing their farming operations for a more prosperous future.

TechnoServe and the Kellogg Company are helping aging farmers in Madhya Pradesh, India, establish sustainable and environmentally friendly sources of income.

Rural youth in Karnataka, India, are learning to treat farming as a business and are reaping the rewards.

In the final part of our weeklong series, we highlight how TechnoServe’s market-based approach has helped revive coffee sectors that had almost disappeared – such as Zimbabwean coffee, which was released to consumers last month by Nespresso.