Improving Market Led Production of Target Crops
TechnoServe seeks to increase the production of teff, wheat, and maize for more than 200,000 farmers and strengthen the farmers access to output markets.
Ethiopia
Boosting Nutrition and Opportunity in Africa
The inability to access safe, nutritious, and affordable food is a problem for many people across East and Southern Africa, leading to widespread malnutrition in children.
Better Coffee, Better Prices: Improving Farmer Livelihoods through Quality Improvements
In this Business Fights Poverty article, TechnoServe Global Coffee Director Paul Stewart talks about the link between coffee quality and livelihoods.
Coffee Initiative II Impact Audit Report from ImpactMatters
In 2017, TechnoServe engaged ImpactMatters, an impact audit firm founded with support from Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA), to review several projects within our portfolio. This impact audit reviews the second phase of the Coffee Initiative, C.I. II, which was implemented by TechnoServe from 2012 to 2016 in Ethiopia, Kenya,…
Coffee Consumer Spotlight: Ethiopian Forest Coffee
In Ethiopia, wild coffee thrives under dense forest canopies. Since 2018, TechnoServe has been working with Partnerships for Forests to support the farmers who grow this coffee, and the diverse habitats they rely on for their livelihoods.
What Goes Into Your Coffee? Better Incomes for Farmers
In part one of our weeklong series, we highlight the ways that training and market connections have created lasting income improvements for small coffee farmers around the world.
In Ethiopia, Coffee Creates Opportunity
Over 15 million Ethiopians rely on coffee for their livelihoods. This is one of their stories.
Ask a TechnoServe Expert: Mefthe Tadesse on Climate Change Resilience
"Ask a TechnoServe Expert" is a new series where our staff members, who work on a range of important global development issues, answer your questions. In this edition, Ethiopia Country Director Mefthe Tadesse answered your questions on climate resilience.
Water-Wise Coffee: Making Sustainable Business Profitable in Ethiopia
As greater traceability and ever-growing consumer interest in coffee origins increase the incentives for sustainable production, more opportunities to align profits and sustainability will emerge. If we are innovative and approach problems from a business perspective, we can help the supply chain grow even greener.
How Coffee Can Save Ethiopia’s Forests
Partnerships for Forests and TechnoServe are working together to protect Ethiopia's ecologically unique and biodiverse habitats while increasing the livelihoods of forest coffee farmers.
