South Africa boasts a significant maize industry, but smallholder farmers are not reaping the benefits of this market due to low crop yields, lack of economies of scale, and post-harvest losses. Tanager is helping farmers to improve agricultural productivity and transition from subsidy-dependent production to commercial levels through sustainable and efficient farming methods. Impacts [...]
In partnership with recognized international institutions such as AGRA, Digital Green, the World Food Programme, FAO, and others, Tanager supports a variety of multinational critical development initiatives to address rural poverty, reduce inequalities in agriculture, and improve the long-term economic well-being of farmers.
Half of India’s labor market is said to be devoted to agriculture, but the average Indian farmer is small or in subsistance farming. At the same time, India grows key crops that are in demand by multinational corporations. In India, Tanager is building a sustainable supply chain of quality mint oil that improves livelihoods, addresses [...]
In Kenya and across the African continent, agricultural productivity has increased but with minimal impacts on women’s empowerment and household nutrition levels. Knowing that greater gender equality often leads to increases in nutrition, Tanager is working with African agricultural institutions in Kenya and beyond to incorporate gender-transformative and nutrition-sensitive approaches into both their programming and [...]
Security challenges and a growing population are contributing to youth unemployment in Burkina Faso. Additionally, gender inequality is hindering women’s economic potential. Despite the increasing demand for poultry as a food source, the country’s poultry sector lacks the capacity to meet this demand. Tanager’s projects in Burkina Faso are providing job skills and entrepreneurship training [...]
