Southern Africa

The Technical Assistance Facility helps agricultural and food processing businesses to fight food insecurity by improving operations and extending their reach to poor consumers.

While innovating solutions to timber waste, TechnoServe and its partners unlock an opportunity for a renewable energy power plant with enormous potential for both environmental and social benefits.

Can simple business solutions make conservation profitable for smallholder farmers?

Cashew farming communities in northern Mozambique are seeing firsthand the important contributions that women can make when they are empowered to make a difference.

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.

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…

A new study examines how the dynamic yet overlooked market of domestic remittances is boosting financial inclusion for South Africans.

National Nut Day celebrates the huge nutritional and economic value that comes in small nutty packages.

The MozaCajú project teaches cashew farmers in northern Mozambique improved commercialization techniques to boost profits from their harvest.

Tumi Mphahlele struggled to find beauty products for her sensitive skin in South Africa, so she turned to her knowledge of biochemistry and began her own business.