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Jan 17, 2025 | 
technoserve.org | Techno Serve |Olivia Sakai
Tags: Agriculture Environmental Sustainability Food Security Food systems are networks that connect all processes involved in feeding the global population. From agricultural production to consumption, the food system plays a pivotal role in global sustainability, food security, and economic development. Understanding and strengthening food systems is critical as challenges like climate change, food waste, malnutrition, and inefficiencies in supply chains grow.
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
technoserve.org | Techno Serve |Olivia Sakai
Tags: Agriculture Environmental Sustainability This month, we’re focusing on GOOD news from around the world. How well do you know the latest positive developments? Test your knowledge of current events with TechnoServe’s November 2024 “global good news” quiz.
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Nov 12, 2024 | 
technoserve.org | Techno Serve |Olivia Sakai
Tags: Africa Ethiopia Rwanda As the year draws to a close, many of us are reflecting on how we can make the most meaningful impact with our charitable giving. This time of year often inspires us to honor loved ones and support causes that are close to our hearts. At TechnoServe, we believe that everyone deserves the opportunity to build a better life. This means creating transformative, long-lasting change that helps lift families and communities out of poverty for good.
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Nov 4, 2024 | 
technoserve.org | Techno Serve |Olivia Sakai
Tags: Agriculture Cashews In many parts of the world, November is a time of harvest and holidays. This month, we celebrate some of the foods produced by smallholder farmers and enjoyed in special moments around the world. TechnoServe works with farmers like Lal Singh across India to improve their incomes, , and resistance to climate change. Did you recognize this form of a popular global treat?
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Sep 17, 2024 | 
technoserve.org | Techno Serve |Olivia Sakai
Tags: Africa East Africa Kenya Entrepreneurship Environmental Sustainability Micro-Retail Kenya faces a significant challenge when it comes to waste management. Across the country, an estimated 92% of plastic is mismanaged, and only 7% is effectively recycled. Kenya’s small retail shops—known as dukas—have an important role to play, but most of the country’s small retailers are struggling to handle their waste properly.
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Sep 4, 2024 | 
technoserve.org | Techno Serve |Olivia Sakai
Tags: India Mexico Nigeria Agriculture Environmental Sustainability Food Security Food systems are the interconnected processes by which food is grown, processed, packaged, distributed, sold, and consumed. These processes are central to the well-being of every person on earth. By transforming our food systems, we can ensure everyone has access to adequate nutrition and a decent livelihood. Meet three smallholder farmers who are working to build more inclusive, sustainable food systems.
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Sep 2, 2024 | 
businessfightspoverty.org | Mouna Mbacke |William Warshauer President |Techno Serve |Zahid Torres-Rahman
The growing power of violent extremist groups in Africa requires cross-sector solutions that go beyond military action. Africa now accounts for nearly half of all global deaths from terrorism each year. Benin–one of the countries where our organization, TechnoServe, works–experienced two security incidents during 2019. In the first half of 2023 alone, the country experienced 15. In the same time period, West Africa recorded 1,800 terrorist attacks.
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Aug 8, 2024 | 
technoserve.org | Techno Serve |Olivia Sakai
Tags: Africa Asia Global Latin America and the Caribbean Staff 13 Empowering and Inspiring Books “James” by Percival Everett Recommended by Will Warshauer, President and CEO, USA In a fascinating and creative reworking of “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” Everett both reminds us in a powerful way of the horrors and injustices of slavery, while at the same time offering us some new (and even at times humorous) explanations of coping mechanisms used by slaves.
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Aug 6, 2024 | 
technoserve.org | Techno Serve |Olivia Sakai
Tags: Kenya Mozambique Peru Agriculture Coffee Entrepreneurship Youth Economic Opportunity From the coffee farms of Peru to the bustling markets of Mozambique and the coastal waters of Kenya, meet three young people crafting brighter futures for themselves and their communities. Their journeys illustrate how targeted support and training can unlock youth potential. Join us in honoring their achievements and vote for the photo that best captures the spirit of youth empowerment.
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Aug 5, 2024 | 
technoserve.org | Techno Serve |Olivia Sakai
Tags: Africa Democratic Republic of the Congo East Africa Agriculture Coffee Environmental Sustainability In Kahuzi-Biega National Park (KBNP), two extinct volcanoes tower above the horizon, often shrouded in mist and clouds. The park, situated in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) near the southern shore of Lake Kivu, teems with plant and animal life. Its lush forests are home to one of the last groups of eastern lowland gorillas, a critically endangered species.
