Africa

A young Kenyan farming entrepreneur demonstrates why youth are critical to transforming agriculture and ensuring food security in Africa.

The members of the Muoho Cocoa Farmer Group are hard at work, even as the sound of their laughter echoes through the cocoa forest. They sit around a huge mound of harvested cocoa pods. Each one must be broken open to remove the pulp and beans inside, a job that…

Creative mobile solutions are addressing major challenges in the agriculture industry, providing benefits for both farmers and agribusinesses.

Contract farming holds the potential to benefit both smallholders and businesses, while improving sustainability along agricultural supply chains.

Nespresso and TechnoServe are partnering in South Sudan to build a coffee industry that could provide a sustainable source of income for thousands of rural families.

TechnoServe and Nespresso are expanding their partnership to support coffee farming families in Kenya, Ethiopia and South Sudan.

Farmers build a successful coffee business and use the profits to bring electricity to their villages.

By Arnest Sebbumba, STRYDE program participant It is difficult to translate the word “entrepreneur” into my native tongue, Luganda. Most of my friends here in Kayunga, Uganda, come from farming families, but few of them have any interest in managing their farms for a living. Agribusiness skills…