South America

Anglo American’s Christian Spano discusses the mining company’s development strategy and its successful partnership with TechnoServe on entrepreneurship programs.

A group of enterprising women from the Peruvian Amazon are turning the region's cocoa into high-quality products lauded by the global chocolate industry.

What can the success of a small-town fishmonger teach us about the financing needs of entrepreneurs? Quite a bit, according to TechnoServe's Chile country director.

TechnoServe’s Simon Winter visits Peru and discovers a burgeoning cocoa industry.

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…

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.