Coffee

For AFCA 2025, TechnoServe shares research and guidelines for improving coffee cup quality and wet mill profitability.

In 2012, Lubaba Mekonnen joined a TechnoServe program that supported coffee farmers in her community. We reconnected with Lubaba in 2020 and again in 2024 to see how her life changed in the decade since first joining the program.

Cooperative leaders like Nelson Kimani have a clear job: improving the incomes and livelihoods of their member farmers. So when the chairman of the New Murarandia Farmers’ Cooperative Society in Murang’a County, Kenya, heard about the new European deforestation regulations, he wondered how they would impact the cooperative…

Meet Hermelinda, a coffee grower who has created a full life in the Western Highlands of Guatemala, where three generations of her family now gather.

TechnoServe is helping rural women access tools for pulping and drying coffee, processes that improve coffee quality and facilitate women's advancement in the value chain.

What if coffee farmers in Zimbabwe could process their beans in less time with less effort? Would this increase the quality of their product and, thereby, their income? Thanks to partnerships with TechnoServe and Nespresso, a group of farmers is finding out.

As 2024 draws to a close, let’s take a moment to celebrate the milestone moments that you helped make possible through your support. Thanks to you, our work has made a real, tangible difference in millions of lives. 1. As TechnoServe’s Coffee Alliance for Excellence…

In Rwanda, coffee is a primary export product, with nearly 22,000 metric tons of coffee exported each year from nearly 300 coffee washing stations (CWS) and more than 400,000 coffee farmers.

Discover how regenerative coffee farming is transforming Guatemala’s coffee industry through TechnoServe’s CaféTec program. With sustainable techniques like Top Working, smallholder farmers can boost coffee yields, improve soil health, and strengthen resilience to climate change—all without disrupting production. Learn how these practices are helping Guatemala’s coffee sector thrive in the context of environmental challenges and economic pressures.

In Ethiopia’s remote coffee-growing regions, a remarkable transformation is underway. When TechnoServe began its coffee work here in 2011, only 4% of coffee farmers in its training programs were women—despite women performing crucial roles in coffee production. Through innovative training approaches and…