A New Model for Producing Seed
How small commercial farmers in the highlands of Zambézia are driving adoption of improved techniques for soy seed production.
Creating Change for Mozambique’s Cashew Sector through Processing
In only four years, Mozambique cashew farmers have planted more than 500,000 cashew seedlings, while burgeoning processing plants across the country work to connect these booming yields with premium markets.
Mozambican Cashew Conference 2017
TechnoServe Mozambique and the Government of Mozambique’s National Cashew Institute (INCAJU) hosted a conference in Maputo, Mozambique in December 2017, with the theme “Inputs for Growth.” The conference brought together various actors from the Mozambican cashew industry, including representatives from processors, producers, input and financial service providers, NGOs, United…
Learning from Women’s Savings Strategies in Tanzania
Participants in TechnoServe's Business Women Connect program are helping to shape the development sector's strategies around the roles that mobile savings and business trainings play in women's empowerment.
Innovative Finance for the Future of Agriculture in Mozambique
After four years of work in Mozambique’s agricultural sector, the FinAgro program is forecasted to increase participating businesses’ revenues by an average of 67 percent.
Mozambican Women Catalyze Change in the Cashew Industry
Cashew farming communities in northern Mozambique are seeing firsthand the important contributions that women can make when they are empowered to make a difference.
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.
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…
Ode to Nuts
National Nut Day celebrates the huge nutritional and economic value that comes in small nutty packages.
The Business Side of Cashew
The MozaCajú project teaches cashew farmers in northern Mozambique improved commercialization techniques to boost profits from their harvest.
