Disruption in a Nutshell: How Bhutan’s Largest Private Sector Employer is Weathering the COVID Storm
With COVID-19 disrupting supply chains, industries, and markets across the globe, we’re checking in with Private Sector Window clients to see how the health and economic crisis is affecting their businesses and the smallholders in their supply chain. In the next installment of our “COVID Conversations” series, we talk with Daniel Spitzer and Teresa Law, CEO and CFO respectively, of Mountain Hazelnuts, Bhutan’s largest private sector employer.
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’re checking in with Private Sector Window clients to see how the health and economic crisis is affecting their businesses and the smallholders in their supply chains.
An African Entrepreneur is Revolutionizing Kenya’s Supply Chain
Peter Njonjo, Co-Founder and CEO of Twiga Foods, sat down with Private Sector Window’s 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.
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’s 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—particularly compared to the rock-bottom fee the coffee farmer thousands of miles away likely received. Nadeem Ahmed’s close work with the 's Private Sector Window is creating a “win-win” for smallholder farmers in Malawi and Global Tea alike.
Planting a More Resilient Cotton Sector in Burkina Faso
The effects of climate change are undermining cotton farmers’ livelihoods in Burkina Faso—where 80 percent of the population depend on agriculture to earn a living.
A family business helps millions suffering from acute malnutrition
Insta Products CEO, Dhiren Chandaria, talks about his mission—with ’s help—to save lives.
Protecting an ancient way of life in the Sahara
Nomadic Pastoralists get new opportunities for income. Explore the interactive story.
Putting an end to stunting in Rwanda
A healthy productive life requires adequate nutrition. Yet around the world, millions of people are undernourished and hungry.
Better farming means better lives for cotton farmers in Burkina Faso
Many lives depend on cotton yields in Burkina Faso—one of the World's poorest countries
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
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.