Assessment of Food Fortification Approaches: Enablers and Challenges
Explore food fortification approaches from Millers for Nutrition and lessons for engaging food processors and expanding access to fortified foods.
From Surplus to Supper: What Food Loss in Kenya Taught Me About Food Systems
TechnoServe’s NutriSave program is developing innovative solutions to turn surplus produce into nutritious, affordable meals while supporting local vendors and farmers in Kenya.
TechnoServe and the elea Foundation Launch Smart Souks Program to Empower 300 Micro-Retailers in Addis Ababa
The three-year initiative is designed to enhance business skills, facilitate access to finance, expand digital tools adoption, and boost the revenue of micro retail entrepreneurs in Addis Ababa by 30%.
How Radio Boosts Women’s Economic Empowerment in Northern Benin
In northern Benin, a community radio broadcast is changing attitudes and lives. TechnoServe partnered with Radio SOTA FM to co-produce programs on entrepreneurship and women's economic empowerment. These shows reach thousands of listeners across West Africa and beyond.
Scaling Impact: How One Entrepreneurship Development Program Helped an Inclusive School Grow
Learn how Ontifile Gaokgorwe overcame the odds to secure a major loan, buy her school's building, and scale her life-changing impact to 150 students in Botswana.
4 Key Skills Every Shopkeeper and Small Shop Owner Needs
Through TechnoServe’s work with shopkeepers in more than half a dozen countries, we have identified four skills that all microretailers need to transform their businesses and lives.
5 Myths About Hunger, Farmers, and How Food Systems Really Work
The world produces food at enormous scale, yet millions of people still struggle to access a nutritious diet. Why? This blog challenges five common assumptions about hunger and explores how income, markets, farming, food processing, and economic opportunity shape what ultimately reaches people’s plates.
Green Jobs for Youth: How Young Entrepreneurs Are Changing Peru’s Recycling Sector
This International Youth Day, we're highlighting how green jobs for youth are driving meaningful change in Peru's recycling sector with targeted support from TechnoServe.
Strengthening the Business Case for Fortification
Strengthening the Business Case for Food Fortification explores how commercially viable incentives can help food processors adopt and sustain high-quality fortification. Drawing on examples from across the Millers for Nutrition coalition, the brief highlights practical approaches to building consumer demand in voluntary markets and rewarding compliance in mandatory markets, demonstrating how stronger market systems can improve nutrition at scale.
Resources for Expanding Rural Financial Services
Research, guidance, and tools from WIN 2.0 offer practical lessons for supporting financial service providers to reach women in rural Mozambique.
