Helping Small Businesses Grow in Chilean Patagonia
Entrepreneurs in a remote region of Chile are taking their businesses to the next level with support from TechnoServe’s Potencia Patagonia program.
Entrepreneurs in a remote region of Chile are taking their businesses to the next level with support from TechnoServe’s Potencia Patagonia program.
Geister Cachique remembers the days when he and his family depended on coca plants to earn a living. Coca, which can be processed into cocaine, was one of the only crops that would grow well on their marginal land in the community of Las Mercedes, located in Peru’s tropical San…
The Economic Development Alliance for San Martín accelerated the transition of the San Martín region of Peru into a sustainable, legal and prosperous economy, increasing employment and incomes while promoting good stewardship of natural resources.
The EMERGE program is a collaboration between Anglo American and TechnoServe that works to accelerate micro and small businesses in communities surrounding Anglo American operations in Chile.
Potencia Patagonia is a business accelerator that helps entrepreneurs of the Los Lagos, Aysén and Magallanes regions to grow their businesses by providing training, advisory services and seed capital.
Impulsa Tu Empresa (ITE) was the first successful financial inclusion intervention for low-income micro business owners in Chile.
TechnoServe works to help farmers in San Martin, Peru increase productivity and improve the quality of their crops, promote value-added processes such as organic certification and foster related entrepreneurship and small business growth.
The Peruvian Amazon is one of the world´s most celebrated sources of cocoa, producing more than 26 tons of cocoa beans in 2011. In the past year, Peru exported more than $120 million worth of chocolate and cocoa beans, continuing to meet worldwide demand for the high-quality products native to…
How can we stimulate entrepreneurship in the developing world? For TechnoServe, this is more than just a theoretical question.
In the south of the Brazilian state of Bahia, three organizations are uniting to implement an economic development project that is generating benefits for 60 farmers who live on settlements created after agrarian reform.