Tag: TechnoServe
Three Ways to Make Technology Inclusive for Smallholder Farmers
Europe: Technology can be used to make farming more inclusive, through three critical factors: setting targets, working with local partners and keeping the end-user in mind.
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10 Ways Precision Agriculture is Transforming Farming
Africa & Middle East: Farmers can now be guided by technology to use earth's resources like land and water, as well as inputs like fertilizer in the most efficient way.
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Unleashing Innovation For East Africa’s Millennial Farmers
Africa & Middle East: Awino Nyamolo from TechnoServe tells Farming First about how to harness the power of young people for Africa's food future.
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What Role for Smallholders in Agribusiness Development?
Global: Farming First reports on roundtable discussions exploring the potential roles and opportunities for smallholder farmers in future agribusiness development hosted by the UK Parliament.
Read MoreAssisting African Food Processors to Deliver Quality, Nutritious Foods
Africa & Middle East: Food processing is an important driver of jobs and incomes in many African countries and can also provide access to greater diversity of affordable, high quality and nutritious foods. By improving the capacity of local food processors across sub-Saharan Africa to produce and market healthy food products, while simultaneously improving smallholder farmers’ access to markets, […]
Read MoreCocoa Offers New Hope for Nicaraguan Farmers
Latin America & the Caribbean: Cocoa beans from the Criollo tree, native to Nicaragua, are prized by gourmet chocolate makers for their exceptional aroma, flavor and quality. Fine cocoa typically commands a price anywhere from two to five times higher than conventional cocoa. Yet Nicaragua exports fewer than 1,000 tons of cocoa a year, almost none of it fine cocoa. […]
Read MoreHelping Fruit Farmers Become Exporters in El Salvador
Latin America & the Caribbean: Two years ago, farmers of jocote, a fruit native to Central America, were struggling with high post-harvest losses and low prices set by middlemen. The situation was so bleak that several of the jocoteros considered selling the farms they had owned for decades. But with TechnoServe’s assistance, the farmers learned to grow and harvest their […]
Read MoreTurning Palm Oil to Profits
Latin America & the Caribbean: The fruit of the oil palm, a tropical palm tree, is a key agricultural product in Honduras. However, many small-scale producers of the crop lack the equipment and organizational capacity necessary for their business to thrive. In 2007, TechnoServe began working with APROVA, a cooperative of 154 farming families who were earning little for the […]
Read MoreFarmers in Africa Profit from Higher Quality Coffee
Africa & Middle East: With support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, TechnoServe is undertaking a major initiative to help small-scale coffee farmers in East Africa double their incomes. TechnoServe business advisors focus their efforts in four areas: agronomy and training to provide farmers with practical knowledge that will increase yields; installation of wet mills to produce washed […]
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Haiti Hope Project
Latin America & the Caribbean: In the wake of Haiti’s catastrophic earthquake, TechnoServe is partnering with The Coca-Cola Company on the Haiti Hope Project, whose objective is to create a sustainable Haitian mango industry and play a role in the nation’s long-term recovery efforts. TechnoServe will help Haitian mango farmers grow their crops more efficiently, produce additional crops to boost […]
Read MoreSoy Program Boosting Farmer Incomes in Southern Africa
Africa & Middle East: Sub-Saharan Africa contributes less than one percent of the world’s soy, but the crop has the potential to become a key source of income for the region’s farmers. In the next 10 years, TechnoServe hopes to significantly increase the incomes of 200,000 households in southern Africa through the development of a competitive local soy industry. […]
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