Building Resilient Farming Futures in South Africa’s Eastern Cape with John Deere Foundation June 2026 Summary A powerful partnership: Through a collaboration between the John Deere Foundation and Tanager International, the Imbewu program is helping smallholder farmers transition from subsistence to commercially viable agriculture in South Africa’s Eastern Cape. Real results for farmers: With integrated [...]
Tanager Receives $4.2 Million Award from John Deere to Boost Smallholder Farmer Productivity, Profitability in South Africa December 2024 Summary Award and Project Continuation: Tanager received a 4-year, $4.2 million award from the John Deere Foundation to transition smallholder farmers in South Africa from subsistence to self-sufficient agriculture. This new award continues the Imbewu Farmer [...]
Tanager President Named to AMEA Board August 2024 Summary Sergio Rivas Joins AMEA Board: Tanager President Sergio Rivas has been appointed to the Board of Directors of the Agribusiness Market Ecosystem Alliance (AMEA), a global network focused on professionalizing farmer organizations and supporting agri-SMEs. Deepening Agricultural Impact: With extensive experience in Latin America and Africa, [...]
Two Studies from Tanager's IGNITE Project Published in African Journal of Food, Agriculture, Nutrition, and Development April 2024 Tanager’s Impacting Gender & Nutrition Through Innovative Technical Exchange in Agriculture (IGNITE) project has just published two research studies in a peer-reviewed journal, “African Journal of Food, Agriculture, Nutrition, and Development” (Volume 24, Issue No. 3). IGNITE [...]
The Pro-WEAI Tool: Measuring Women's Empowerment: From Theory to Practice September 2023 Women’s empowerment is recognized as crucial to agricultural transformation in developing countries. However, it can be complex to accurately assess the level of their empowerment in research. For example, some researchers target the head of households when seeking agricultural statistics using surveys—which tend [...]
PSFPO Project to Hold Learning Workshop on FPO Sustainability September 2023 Stakeholders working with farmer producer organizations (FPO) or in the agricultural supply chain in Odisha are invited to attend a learning workshop, “Sustainable FPO Business Models in Odisha,” on Thursday, 21st September, 09:30 am – 2:00 pm, at Hotel Fortune Sishmo in Bhubaneswar. Hosted [...]
IGNITE Takes the Next Step in Building a Network of African Agricultural Institutions Advancing Gender and Nutrition Integration August 2023 Consumption of healthy diets, as well as ensuring women’s access to and control over household resources, is pivotal to the attainment of food and nutrition security. Traditionally, many agricultural interventions were focused on increasing food [...]
Microfinance institutions are vital for the agricultural sector in Burkina Faso and have a desire to improve their approaches to gender and nutrition in their work. #IGNITEforChange, Tanager’s project in partnership with Laterite and 60decibels, is working to do just that. In this video, Sokhna Gaye discusses the vital work her and the team are doing with a local microfinance institution to mainstream gender and nutrition.
To increase the profitability and sustainability of Farmer Producer Organizations (FPOs) in Odisha, India, Tanager along with Palladium has announced the launch of the Promotion and Stabilization of Farmer Producer Organizations (PSFPO) project.
On October 14th, between 8 and 9:30 am EST, Tanager, Mars Wrigley, and Symrise will present an interactive virtual Side Event during the 2020 Norman E. Borlaug International Symposium (hosted by the World Food Prize) focused on how to effectively and humbly manage projects with multi-stakeholder partnerships, using the award-winning Shubh Mint project as a case study.
