Agriculture

This post by Business Fights Poverty explores key insights from the Harvard Kennedy School's report on TechnoServe’s East Africa Coffee Initiative.

Women play a central, though often "invisible," role in Colombian coffee production. Here's how The Coca-Cola Foundation and TechnoServe are partnering to improve the access of 11,000 women to the services and training they need to run their coffee farms as a business.

In Sidama, Ethiopia, communities rely on rivers to both process their coffee and provide for their families. The Water Wise project introduced a simple solution to keep rivers productive and clean for coffee economies.

TechnoServe seed projects offer simple solutions to the barriers women face when adopting best practices and offer inclusive growth for farming communities.

In Agaro, Ethiopia, coffee farmers and processors are learning best practices, increasing incomes and paying it forward to their communities.

TechnoServe is working with local entrepreneurs to turn waste from cashew harvests into a new beverage industry for Benin, and a more prosperous future for Africa’s cashew-producing countries.

As farmers from South Asia to East Africa to Latin America can attest, there is a lot of know-how and hard work behind those sweet and juicy fruits.

As the Sustainable Agricultural Improvement (MAS) project comes to a close in Honduras, we take a look at how the project helped one coffee farming family to build a strong farming business and promising career opportunities throughout the value chain.

As the world grapples with the immense question of how to slow climate change and limit its effects, part of the answer can be found on small farms.

It’s World Milk Day, and we at TechnoServe want to celebrate the important role that dairy animals and products can play in lifting communities out of poverty.