In partnership with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, TechnoServe’s Innovation in Outcome Measurement (IOM) project aims to identify breakthrough innovations capable of transforming agriculture and to develop a framework for scaling these innovations for business use.
With large rural populations in Africa, it can be difficult to reach farmers for training and traveling to training can be costly and time consuming for farmers. The Mobile Training Unit project is an innovative agricultural extension training approach, which allows for large groups of smallholder farmers to receive audio and visual training lessons in rural areas.
Business Women Connect was born out of research showing that micro-savings products are one of the most impactful tools for women entrepreneurs to access in order to grow their businesses.
Lessons learned from a pilot project leveraging an electronic trading platform for small-scale and marginal women farmers in Bihar, India…
A 25-year-old entrepreneur is educating young people in her community on the benefits of mobile financial solutions.
TechnoServe's Michael Elliott discusses the successes, challenges and future of information and communications technologies for agriculture.
TechnoServe helped to show how a new way of working with the supply chain can unlock the potential of Ghana’s smallholder farmers.
Creative mobile solutions are addressing major challenges in the agriculture industry, providing benefits for both farmers and agribusinesses.
TechnoServe worked to introduce mobile phone-based solutions to meet demand from farmers, private sector agribusinesses as well as the development community for information and other value added services.
Smallholder farmers in the developing world face considerable challenges that keep many of them locked in poverty. Mobile technologies have the potential to transform the rural economy facing impoverished small farmers.
