“We were planting a few heads of cabbages, beet root and spinach,” Phindile Nkosi a farmer in Steynsdorp, South Africa told CCTV Africa. “Then we were selling our product to the pension point, because it was not very much.”

Acting as a conduit to creating partnerships with farmers living in poverty, TechnoServe connects small scale farmers and food retailers like Woolworths South Africa to create partnerships. Before TechnoServe came along, farmers like Nkosi were not privy to systematic farming processes which resulted in a sustainable lifestyle.