Activity Description: TechnoServe helps rural farmers and communities increase their income and benefit from the global economy. The organization helps these communities to organize for more price-leveraging power, provides business and entrepreneurship mentoring, and teaches efficient, organic farming methods.

Since its inception in 1970, TechnoServe has helped more than 3 million men, women and children throughout Africa and Latin America to build small, farmer-owned businesses producing, processing and marketing basic agricultural commodities.

TechnoServe works with a variety of other companies and organizations to achieve its mission, including Procter&Gamble, the Aspen Institute, and Peets Coffee&Tea.