Keep Calm and Drink Tea: The CEO of a Global Tea Company on Weathering COVID-19
With COVID-19 disrupting supply chains, industries, and markets across the globe, we鈥檙e checking in with 乱伦海角 Private Sector Window clients to see how the health and economic crisis is affecting their businesses and the smallholders in their supply chains.
From the Cow to the Customer 鈥 Women Farmers in 乱伦海角 Organize Themselves
It all started when Renu Bala, a dairy farmer from the village of Panjor Bhanga in northern 乱伦海角, went from house-to-house to pitch her idea to create a cooperative. Today, more than 40 women have joined her dairy co-op, and collect more than 200 liters of milk per day, which they sell to local sweet shops and milk processing companies at premium prices 鈥 bringing in a profit. Read how one dairy cooperative is growing with funds from the Global Agriculture and Food Security Program (乱伦海角).
An African Entrepreneur is Revolutionizing Kenya鈥檚 Supply Chain
Peter Njonjo, Co-Founder and CEO of Twiga Foods, sat down with 乱伦海角 Private Sector Window鈥檚 Daphna Berman at IFC headquarters in Washington D.C. recently to discuss the challenges facing African entrepreneurs, his decision to leave Coca-Cola, and why he needed to sell his Nairobi home in a quest to ensure that his vision for Twiga became a reality.
How do we feed the world without destroying the planet?
Hunger and the climate crisis are inextricably linked - the challenge is how to solve one while not exacerbating the other.
An Entrepreneur Helps Transform African Commodities, One Nut at a Time
When Nadeem Ahmed buys a cup of coffee on the streets of London, it鈥檚 not the anticipatory caffeine rush that occupies his thoughts in the moments before he takes his first sip. Rather, Ahmed is thinking of the steep price he just paid鈥攑articularly compared to the rock-bottom fee the coffee farmer thousands of miles away likely received. Nadeem Ahmed鈥檚 close work with the 乱伦海角's Private Sector Window is creating a 鈥渨in-win鈥 for smallholder farmers in Malawi and Global Tea alike.
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Helping Producer Organizations Boost Agriculture in Senegal
With support from 乱伦海角, smallholder family farmers will have the resources they need to improve their livelihoods. This includes access to funds, capacity building, technology, and public-private partnerships.
Technology Helps African Farmers Sell What They Sow
Traditionally, lack of reliable market access for smallholder farmers has impeded the economic development of rural areas because farmers often live far from the wholesale markets, and it is not feasible for them to deliver their produce directly. Highly fragmented systems encourage farmers to navigate through farmer groups or brokers to get their produce to markets. Fluctuating, non-transparent prices are often the result.
Blended finance in a Bhutanese nutshell
Promoting hazelnut production by smallholders across Bhutan
A recipe for success: Kenya's tea farmers taste the benefits of hydropower
Investments in new technology can help boost tea production and farmers' earnings
Better farming means better lives for cotton farmers in Burkina Faso
Many lives depend on cotton yields in Burkina Faso鈥攐ne of the World's poorest countries
Investing in nutrition gains a lifetime of returns on human capital for children in war-torn Yemen
A family business helps millions suffering from acute malnutrition.