Women in Rural South Africa Take On Climate Change
TechnoServe and Kellogg Company are partnering to help build female farmers’ resilience to climate change in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa.
Women's Economic Empowerment
Encouraging Women Coffee Farmers’ Participation
TechnoServe’s Cosechemos Más Café (Better Coffee Harvest) project, in partnership with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the J.M. Smucker Company, and the PIMCO Foundation, seeks to boost the productivity and the quality of the coffee produced by smallholder farmers of El Salvador and…
Growing Businesses by Linking Women to Finance
To help grow their sunflower oil business, the Majengo sisters needed access to finance, which is often a barrier to success for women entrepreneurs.
She Fights Poverty: Empowering Women Entrepreneurs for Growth
With more equitable access to resources and information, enterprising women like Ayli Quinteros are lifting themselves, their families and their communities out of poverty.
Empowering Women Cocoa Farmers in Tanzania
Launched in 2009 with support from Irish Aid, TechnoServe’s Cocoa Quality and Market Access (CQMA) program is improving the livelihoods of Tanzanian cocoa farmers by helping them increase yields and quality. The program is providing training in good agricultural practices, post-harvest handling techniques, financial literacy and gender modules. CQMA is…
Creating Opportunity for Women Through Innovative Business Models
TechnoServe has been playing a leading role in supporting new agribusiness ideas in Zimbabwe since 2011. With support from the U.K.’s Department for International Development (DFID), the Agro Initiative Zimbabwe (AIZ) project seeks to develop the agro-processing and agriculture sectors by supporting innovative medium-sized agribusinesses…
Helping Women Build Better Businesses in Latin America
The Impulsa Tu Empresa (“Boost Your Business”) program is a business accelerator program, which aims to help 850 small and growing businesses across Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua and Burkina Faso. With support from the Argidius Foundation, the Multilateral Investment Fund, the Walmart Foundation, the Citi Foundation and the PIMCO…
Tended by Women, Kitchen Gardens Bloom in India
TechnoServe is working with women in remote rural areas of India to improve household nutrition and incomes.
The Impact of Female Leadership
A female executive of an Ethiopian coffee cooperative demonstrates how women leaders help promote gender inclusion and social responsibility.
