Ruth Nabatanzi couldn’t afford to stay in school, and struggled to make ends meet. After a TechnoServe training, she launched a career as a welder, an unusual occupation for women in her country. Now she is earning significantly more income – and breaking gender stereotypes.
After separating from her husband, Albertina Chirindza turned to an innovative digital savings product to help her children get ahead. It’s helped her to diversify her business, buy land, and send her daughter to college.
A business skills training program helped Gilda Lourenço find a way to care for her family while helping her small business survive the pandemic. And now she’s ready for more.
In highlighting the role of intermediaries in coffee value chains, The Economist talks to TechnoServe Global Coffee Director Paul Stewart.
Climate change threatens to reshape our world, but its effects will not be distributed equally. Read more from Agrilinks.
In the final installment of this three-part series, Crop to Cup, learn how coffee processing – cupping, in particular – in East Africa affects the taste of your coffee and the prices that farmers receive.
Cristina Manfre, Global Gender Director and Devon Melville, Deputy Chief of Party, BeninCajù, identify program climate-smart agriculture (CSA) practices and gender equity outcomes from the eight-year United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)-funded project.
The global mining company and international nonprofit are marking the tenth anniversary of their collaboration in South America and Southern Africa
Yash Mehta is a former TechnoServe Fellow who worked remotely in Ghana earlier this year, where he helped a cocoa processing company improve its business plan and support smallholder farmers to increase their yields and incomes. In this Q&A, Yash shares what his remote fellowship experience was like and how it positively impacted his career path.
