Environmental Sustainability

With the number of people facing life-threatening hunger in the world expected to double this year to 265 million, solutions addressing each link in the food system are essential. Drawing from TechnoServe's work across value chains with a range of public and private partners, we are highlighting the latest challenges, insights, and promising approaches in the current effort to prevent widespread food insecurity and build greater long-term resilience.

As international demand for avocado has increased, more farmers have started to clear forested areas to plant additional avocado trees. In Guatemala, TechnoServe is helping farmers improve their harvests and access higher-value markets while continuing to protect nearby forests.

Many popular foods and beverages are grown by smallholder farmers around the world. These farmers are experiencing increasing challenges as they struggle to grow their crops in the face of extreme weather, droughts, floods, and other threats. Learn about a few of the crops most affected by climate change and what TechnoServe is doing to help these farmers build climate resilience.

Post-harvest loss, which is exacerbated by climate change, contributes to food insecurity and reduces the income of smallholder farmers and processors. We talked to Olorunfemi Oloruntoyin, YieldWise senior program manager in Nigeria, to hear about the challenges these farmers are facing as they adapt to a changing climate.

In sub-Saharan Africa, TechnoServe is working to create new industries and incomes from products typically discarded as waste during cashew and coffee processing.

Join TechnoServe in celebrating Earth Day with stories of climate resilience from our work in Africa, India, and Latin America. Take our quiz to test your knowledge on how climate change impacts smallholder farmers, then read stories about some of the small-scale producers who are using training from TechnoServe to improve their climate resilience and their lives.

For the world’s smallholder farmers, climate change is not a distant threat but a current reality. Learn five ways climate change is impacting these farmers’ livelihoods and what TechnoServe is doing to help them persevere despite immense challenges.

Farmers in developing countries face growing threats from climate change, such as unpredictable weather patterns and more crop diseases and pests. Take our quiz to find out how much you know about how our changing climate is impacting these farmers, and how they are improving their resilience.

In this series, we check back with TechnoServe program participants who were previously featured on our blog, documenting how their lives have changed and progressed.

A corporate partnership training farmers in Madhya Pradesh, India, on climate-smart agricultural techniques was just named “Best Economic Empowerment Program”.