Time to Get Comfortable with Complexity: Insights from TechnoServe’s East Africa Coffee Initiative
This post by Business Fights Poverty explores key insights from the Harvard Kennedy School's report on TechnoServe’s East Africa Coffee Initiative.
Empowering Women Coffee Growers in Antioquia, Colombia
Women play a central, though often "invisible," role in Colombian coffee production. Here's how The Coca-Cola Foundation and TechnoServe are partnering to improve the access of 11,000 women to the services and training they need to run their coffee farms as a business.
TechnoServe’s East Africa Coffee Initiative: An Example of System Leadership in Practice
This case study by the Harvard Kennedy School reviews the ability of TechnoServe’s East Africa Coffee Initiative to achieve inclusive and sustainable growth by aligning the incentives of various stakeholders and building their capabilities to accelerate and scale progress.
Clean Water for Coffee Communities
In Sidama, Ethiopia, communities rely on rivers to both process their coffee and provide for their families. The Water Wise project introduced a simple solution to keep rivers productive and clean for coffee economies.
Growing a Community from Coffee Trees
In Agaro, Ethiopia, coffee farmers and processors are learning best practices, increasing incomes and paying it forward to their communities.
Creating Coffee Livelihoods: On the Family Farm and Beyond
As the Sustainable Agricultural Improvement (MAS) project comes to a close in Honduras, we take a look at how the project helped one coffee farming family to build a strong farming business and promising career opportunities throughout the value chain.
Key Insights to Create Change in Central America’s Coffee Sector
TechnoServe’s Country Director in Nicaragua shares important lessons learned from our work creating inclusive and productive coffee value chains in Central America.
The Lasting Impact of TechnoServe’s Work with Coffee Farmers
Triple Line was contracted by TechnoServe to evaluate the impact of the East Africa Coffee Initiative (2008-11) in Rwanda, Kenya, Tanzania and Ethiopia with the objective of helping smallholder farmers to improve productivity and increase incomes.
Measuring Lasting Change for Coffee Farmers
Five years after completing a project to improve the livelihoods of coffee farmers in Rwanda and Ethiopia, TechnoServe asked researchers to return to participating communities and evaluate our lasting impact.
Why Women Are Essential for Lasting Peace in Colombia
After decades of conflict, women hold the key to the establishment of peaceful economies in rural Colombia.
