A farmer’s tough journey to a sustainable income through coffee highlights the resilience of smallholder farmers. Hear about how Sinderi turned a challenge into an opportunity – and brought her community along for the ride.
In highlighting the role of intermediaries in coffee value chains, The Economist talks to TechnoServe Global Coffee Director Paul Stewart.
In the final installment of this three-part series, Crop to Cup, learn how coffee processing – cupping, in particular – in East Africa affects the taste of your coffee and the prices that farmers receive.
The guide outlines strategies for using digital tools to increase the effectiveness and scale of training for the world’s millions of unconnected farmers
This guide outlines strategies for using digital tools to increase the effectiveness and scale of training for the world’s millions of unconnected farmers.
From Ethiopia to Peru, a highly efficient, natural technology is being implemented to help wetlands recover: vetiver grass. Learn how it works in Peru – and how it helps coffee farmer Emilia Lozada send her children to school.
The last coffee farmer in his family, Axel Gutiérrez took TechnoServe training to heart as he tried to keep his farm operational. Now, after much hard work, he expects to double his profits this year.
Celebrate International Day of Rural Women on October 15 with this read from Agrilinks which highlights the Coffee Alliance for Excellence (CAFE) initiative, implemented by TechnoServe and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), with support from Jacobs Douwe Egberts (JDE) and designed to improve the livelihoods of coffee-farming families in Peru.
In 2019, Kyle and Katina Connaughton, owners/operators of SingleThread Farms, traveled to Peru through the Chefs for Change initiative – a program that connects the world’s best chefs to smallholder farmers in developing countries.
