In an important ecological buffer zone of northeastern Honduras, farmers are learning how to improve their coffee productivity while preserving the natural landscape. A TechnoServe program helped farmers raise productivity by 200% while still ensuring the environmental sustainability of the largest protected land in the country.
Follow two coffee farmers as they go about their day in Honde Valley, Zimbabwe, which is known for its prized Arabica coffee.
Follow coffee farmer Noella Rwizibuka and her family as they go about their day in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
TechnoServe's new forest coffee guide, titled: "Ethiopia's Forest Coffee: An Illustrated Guide", features stories, interactive maps, and photographs as highlighted in this Global Coffee Report article.
Daily Coffee News covers TechnoServe's conservation work in East Africa by featuring our new, free 70-page guidebook called Ethiopia’s Forest Coffee: An Illustrated Guide, along with an interactive online map.
This piece in The Borgen Project Magazine features ways in which international nonprofits are working towards female empowerment in Ethiopia, including the “AAA Sustainable Quality” training program, a joint venture between Nespresso and Technoserve, which works with smallholder coffee farmers to become more sustainable and profitable.
Global coffee prices are rising after several years at near-historic lows that prompted many farmers in Central America to immigrate elsewhere. But higher prices alone are not enough to sustain progress. To ensure long-term, profitable incomes, farmers need support establishing long-lasting market connections, developing climate-resilient growing techniques, and diversifying their incomes.
The study found that farmers who were offered agricultural tools were more likely to rejuvenate their coffee trees through stumping, an important agricultural practice
After Hurricane Maria in 2017, Puerto Rico lost an estimated 80% of its coffee trees, crippling an entire industry and leaving many coffee farmers reeling. Today, TechnoServe is working to revive the industry by helping thousands of smallholder coffee farmers significantly increase their yields and boost their resilience to future threats.
