Building Farmers’ Resilience to the Fertilizer Crisis in Peru
There is a clear need to help farmers adopt alternatives, not just in the face of the fertilizer crisis, but in the longer term as well. Read more from Agrilinks.
There is a clear need to help farmers adopt alternatives, not just in the face of the fertilizer crisis, but in the longer term as well. Read more from Agrilinks.
Drawing from TechnoServe's work across value chains with a range of public and private partners, we are highlighting the latest challenges, insights, and promising approaches in the current effort to prevent widespread food insecurity and build greater long-term resilience.
Facing synthetic fertilizer shortages and price hikes due to the conflict in Ukraine, farmers in Peru are quickly turning to alternatives. Programs like CAFE can support alternative fertilizer adoption through supporting local businesses and stakeholders, encouraging reduction, not elimination, of fertilizer use; and presenting alternatives that benefit both farmers and the environment
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It seems simple – people who make their living growing food should have enough of it to feed themselves. But around the world, smallholder farmers are often disproportionately affected by hunger. Read on to discover four reasons behind this apparent paradox – and how you can help fight food insecurity alongside these farmers and their families.
Many popular foods and beverages are grown by smallholder farmers around the world. These farmers are experiencing increasing challenges as they struggle to grow their crops in the face of extreme weather, droughts, floods, and other threats. Learn about a few of the crops most affected by climate change and what TechnoServe is doing to help these farmers build climate resilience.
Our monthly photo series highlights the beauty and emotion in the lives of our clients around the world.
Meet three environmental changemakers working with TechnoServe to make a difference in their communities.
Around the world, climate change is making it more difficult for smallholder farmers to grow coffee. This Earth Day, take our quiz to find out what kind of coffee fits you best, then learn how TechnoServe is helping preserve this coffee through improving farmers’ resilience to climate threats.
In an op-ed in Fortune, TechnoServe's Katarina Kahlmann shows how climate-resilient supply chains can benefit smalhholder farmers and global businesses.