Kenya Successes: Prime Coffee-Growing Region Now Supplies Worldclass Premium Coffee
Across Africa and Latin America, TechnoServe works with farmers to sustainably improve the quality and quantity of the coffee they produce.* It helps link small-scale farmers to specialty coffee buyers who pay a premium for their high-quality beans. The higher incomes...
Kenya Successes: TechnoServe Organized Small-Scale Dairy Farms for Large-Scale Impact
Kenyans drink a lot of milk. This tradition is probably derived from tribal culture—particularly the Maasai tribe–where cows represent wealth. However, the vast majority of dairy farmers own less than ten cows, each of which typically produces ten gallons of...
Kenya Successes: Aspen Orchards & Dairies
Wendy and Rick met with this participant who was definitely making progress in TechnoServe’s Upscaling program. Starting in 2003 in his home, Joseph Njer’s growth-oriented yoghurt processing business by 2007 was on a US$170,000 run-rate for annual turnover. The...
Kenya Successes: Canan Garden “Upscales” Its Honey Products
A pharmacist and his wife successfully ran Neema Pharmacy and Chemists in Embu, a large central Kenyan city surrounded by farms. The wife had grown up in a nearby farming village and saw how difficult some of her neighbors’ lives were, particularly grandparents...Read Our Book for FREE
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