Growing Up and Growing Out: Pathways for Women’s Economic Empowerment
Meet Sulura, a woman who transitioned from selling maize flour to owning her own restaurant. Now she wants to share the secrets of her success with other women entrepreneurs.
Changemaker in Northern Uganda
Evaline Atto is on a mission to encourage greater equality in farming families by ensuring that women farmers in northern Uganda receive payment for their crops alongside their husbands.
Reducing Waste in Fruit Production
Kenyan farmers and businesses are improving the mango value chain through sustainable post-harvest handling practices and technologies.
TechnoServe Initiative for Inclusive Agricultural Business Models: Syngenta
Case study documenting how TechnoServe and Syngenta are addressing barriers to adoption of high-quality agricultural inputs among Kenyan potato and tomato smallholder farmers.
British Foreign Secretary Meets Ghanaian Entrepreneurs
Rising stars on Ghana’s entrepreneurship stage chat about business growth with Boris Johnson during a high profile visit.
Small Fields, Big Harvests
After struggling to make ends meet, Tabitha Muthoni has realized her full potential as a successful farm owner and business person with support from the Mavuno Zaidi Program in Kenya.
Stories From The Field: Moritz Steinle, TechnoServe Fellow, In Uganda
Moritz Steinle, TechnoServe Fellow, supports farmers’ cooperatives in Uganda. How can I help these farmers without any previous experience in agriculture? Will I really have an impact? How long will it take me to adjust to the local culture? How will it be to travel across the country in…
Stories From The Field: Jana Nurmukhanova In Ghana
Jana Nurmukhanova, TechnoServe Fellow, Supports High-Potential SMEs Ghana. I grew up in the country of Kazakhstan during the change and hardship of the post-Soviet era. My mother was a small entrepreneur, not by choice but by necessity. While working as a chemical engineer, she had to start her own…
CASHEW PREMIUM MARKETS: Traceability and Transparency
Increasingly, global consumers want to know about the origin of their food. Efficient, transparent supply chain management systems allow for the tracking of a product from harvest through transport, storage, processing, and commercialization. Information collected along the way helps to enhance supply-side management, mitigate risks to food safety, and facilitate…
Small Businesses Fighting Hunger
Pauline Kamau’s milling business has undergone a transformation, and is now part of a greater movement to curb malnutrition in African communities.
