Coffee

The Amazon is critical to our climate and planetary health. How can economic development there support people and the planet?

Agricultural training and leadership development can create unexpected pathways. For Joyce Wanjiku, a coffee farmer in Kenya, this training opened doors she hadn't imagined—from the cooperative board room to her expanding farm.

In Peru's San Martín region, coffee farmer Layit Vargas Tello learned skills that helped her transform from a quiet participant in her coffee cooperative to a leader in her community.

In 2025, TechnoServe navigated challenges, launched exciting new initiatives, published cutting-edge research, and helped entrepreneurial people around the world create economic opportunity. Here are 10 milestone moments that marked the year at TechnoServe.

Meet Genith Apagueño Cahuaza, a coffee farmer who reconnected with her roots and is now a coffee farmer in Peru’s San Martín region. Her journey is a powerful story of choosing farming after having traveled other paths.

Discover how a small group of Ethiopian farmers built an award-winning coffee cooperative that transformed their community from forgotten to flourishing.

Meet Carlos Cordero, a smallholder coffee farmer and TechnoServe farmer trainer in Puerto Rico who is teaching other farmers in his community how to improve their coffee production.

Manuel Herrera saw early on how coffee could transform his life. His thriving coffee farm is helping Manuel build a better life for his family.

Talent Sabani had left Zimbabwe to find work to support his young family. But he soon found surprising success in coffee farming closer to home.

In Puerto Rico, coffee farmers are learning critical agricultural practices to improve their resilience to climate threats—with support from TechnoServe.