Market Place
Mercy corps
The Adaptation Services for Action and Learning (ASAL Adapts) program is implemented by Mercy Corps in Northern Kenya’s Wajir and Garissa Counties. By leveraging geospatial technology and multi-faceted digital platforms, ASAL Adapts brings together pastoralist and County Government stakeholders to make decisions about natural resource management, informed by geographical analysis and climate services.
Sprout
Sprout, a project of Mercy Corps Agrifin, we are creating a sustainable future for smallholder farmers in Africa by building an ecosystem and a technical platform to bridge the gap between farmers and access to relevant, reliable, personalized decision making tools. We empower Farmer Facing Organizations (FFOs) to deliver customized expert and scientific content and hyper-local weather advisory services that directly address the challenges faced by smallholder farmers, enabling them to make better decisions about their farming activities to build resilience to climate change and improve their productivity and livelihoods.
Lersha
Lersha is a platform that uses a phy-gital model connecting 200,000+ smallholder farmers, and 250+ service providers, offering a marketplace for agricultural inputs, mechanization, access to finance, market linkage, and real-time agro-climate advisory. Lersha provides services to smallholder farmers through both online and offline solutions, utilizing the 2000+ Lersha Agent network, Call Center (7860), and the Lersha digital platform, aiming to make agriculture more accessible in six+ regions in Ethiopia and one county in Kenya.
CoAmana
CoAmana is enhancing the operational efficiency of agricultural markets and foster ing sustainable growth for farmers and traders. Amana Market, a simple SaaS solution. Amana Market enables market managers, farmers and buyers access information for improved production and decision making, market management, trade financing, post harvest loss protection. Amana market is available via web, mobile and USSD platforms. CoAmana’s through Amana Market empowers agricultural communities, reduces trade barriers, and ensures sustainable growth.
KAZNET
KAZNET is a digitally-enabled drylands information crowdsourcing initiative that collects weekly data from livestock markets, rangelands, and households and disseminates near-real-time information to (agro)pastoral households for improved decision making and behaviour change to address climate risks.
DigiCow Africa LTD
DigiCow Africa LTD is a leading agri-tech company dedicated to empowering small-scale farmers in Africa with digital solutions. Since its founding in 2016, DigiCow has developed innovative tools like the DigiCow Dairy App and Ndume App, which enable digital record-keeping and e-extension services. These tools support real-time decision-making in the livestock industry, helping farmers improve productivity. To date, DigiCow has served over 400,000 farmers, with a continued commitment to enhancing agricultural outcomes.
Digifarm
Digifarm is an agri-tech platform that sustainably finances smallholder farmers and connects them to quality products, services and markets. For farmers, the platform offers one-stop access to a suite of smart agriculture services including credit. Buyers can also source directly from smallholder farmers and pay them through an integrated M-Pesa wallet. Digifarm offers working capital for buyers to make on-spot payments to farmers. The platform generates agricultural digital transaction records for farmers and buyers which can be leveraged for credit and working capital. The platform can be accessed through a USSD channel *944#, a smartphone application and has call center support.
Acre Africa
Agriculture and Climate Risk Enterprise Ltd. (ACRE Africa) is a data and technology-based risk management solutions designer linking stakeholders to localized solutions such as insurance and climate change adaptation strategies to reduce agricultural and climate risks. Through data and technology systems, we derisk the agriculture value chain, especially due to climate change-associated vagaries. Our solutions are localized to enable different value chain players to understand the risks involved in different phases of farming enterprise. We offer tailored solutions based on remote and field accessed data. Founded in 2014 as a for profit private company with the headquarters in Nairobi Kenya, ACRE Africa operates as a licensed insurance intermediary supporting local insurers to offer agricultural insurance across value chains with offices present in Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, Nigeria and Zambia and projects in Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, Ghana, Malawi, Senegal, Zimbabwe, Ethiopia, and Somali. ACRE Africa’s mission is to provide holistic risk management solutions to agricultural producers in Sub-Saharan Africa with a bias towards creating solutions that are suitable for smallholder producers (crop and livestock) so that they can confidently invest in food production. Since its establishment in 2009, ACRE Africa has successfully provided customized Agri-Insurance solutions to more than 4 million farmers.
AgBase
AgBase is a business intelligence platform providing real-time data, market insights, and a centralised hub for information on AgTech and FoodTech in Africa and other emerging markets. Backed by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO), and hosted by Briter Bridges in partnership with Mercy Corps AgriFin, this initiative aims to strengthen the knowledge infrastructure needed to catalyse investments, transform the lives of smallholder farmers and boost socio-economic growth in Africa.
Amtech Africa
Amtech Technologies is a technology solutions provider dedicated to empowering businesses with innovative IT services. They specialize in software development, system integration, and digital transformation, helping organizations optimize their operations and enhance productivity. With a focus on delivering tailored solutions, Amtech leverages cutting-edge technology to meet the unique needs of various industries, ensuring clients achieve their strategic goals efficiently and effectively.
Stable Foods
Stable Foods’ Irrigation-as-a-Service (IaaS) is revolutionizing smallholder farming in Kenya by making irrigation affordable and accessible. Our system requires no up-front or capex payment on the part of the farmer, they just pay a small monthly fee for access to the water and then focus on the business of farming. Already within our first year we are increasing farmer profits by almost 500%, and we can work almost anywhere across the continent.
eProd Solutions
eProd Solutions is a comprehensive software platform that streamlines farmer and field data management, ensuring traceability and compliance with industry standards like EUDR certification. Our app offers integrated credit scoring and banking partnerships to enable access to finance packages for smallholder farmers. With features like detailed farmer profiles, payment systems, and credit recovery options, eProd empowers agribusinesses to enhance efficiency, strengthen farmer networks, and support financial inclusion in an ever-evolving landscape.
FSPN Africa
FSPN Africa is a non-governmental organization (NGO) registered by the NGOs Board. Our work fosters innovative approaches and integrate Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture among adolescents, youth and women for sustainable household economic development and nutrition security in Africa.
Our evidence-based approaches to innovation development and strategic partnerships empower communities to build resilient, nutrition-sensitive agricultural systems.
FSPN is supporting young innovators focusing on changing the landscape of indigenous foods that are often underutilized and access to nutrition education digitally on especially on food safety to scale their products and services to create lasting impact in our rural communities.
Boomitra
Boomitra is a leading international soil carbon project developer powered by AI and remote sensing technology. Alongside an ecosystem of international partners, Boomitra equips every farmer and rancher to increase their soil carbon and yields, while securing additional income through carbon credits. A 2023 Earthshot prize winner, Boomitra’s projects benefit over 150,000 farmers on four continents, covering 5 million acres. With 100 global partners, Boomitra has removed 10 million tonnes of CO2 from the atmosphere.
The Farm to Market Alliance (FtMA)
The Farm to Market Alliance (FtMA) is a public-private partnership uniting key agri-focused organizations. It leverages the UN World Food Programme’s local expertise, Yara and Bayer’s agricultural knowledge, and Rabobank’s financial acumen. FtMA empowers farmers through a demand-led approach, establishing self-sustaining Farmer Service Centres that enhance productivity, market access, and farm digitization. To date, this initiative has impacted over 300,000 Kenyan smallholder farmers’ incomes, attracting private sector investment and driving the uptake of agricultural technologies and products at the grassroots level.
Extension Africa
Extension Africa is an agribusiness extension service provided connecting global agribusinesses to rural farmers in Africa through a network of robust rural agents network powered by our technology
solutions; FarmEX which matches the demand from farmers with quality vendors and service providers, and an agribusiness extension academy.
So far we have built a reliable platform connecting 500,000+ farmers with reliable products and services through a network of 2,046 rural youths in 14 states in Nigeria.
Region: Nigeria
Zowasel
Zowasel has built an interactive platform that leverages technology and data science to connect value chain actors and farmer interfacing organizations for increased productivity and earnings. The platform addresses agricultural value chain challenges by promoting inputs access, financial inclusion and data management, market access, digital advisory to enhance Regenerative Agriculture and digital sustainability through digitization and automation of farmers’ footprints throughout the entire value chain.
FreshCrop
FreshCrop is an award-winning Kenyan company specializing in potato value chain management. We offer our farmer ’ s a fully-tested input package including soil testing, certified seed, agrochemical program, agronomy consultation, along with Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA) education and direct market linkages throughout 9 potato growing counties. FreshCrop has a growing network of more than 10,000+ farmers across Kenya. Our main production and stores are located in Mwisho wa Lami, Mau Narok, Nakuru County. Our seeds and agrochemical programs are available to ship anywhere in the country.
Sistema.bio
Sistema.bio is a social enterprise that provides access to innovative biodigester technology, training and financing to address the challenges of poverty, food security, and climate change. Sistema.bio manufactures and distributes high-quality, affordable biodigesters that enable farmers around the world to convert waste into energy and fertilizer. By providing flexible interest-free repayment plans and comprehensive monitoring services, Sistema.bio works with farmers to ensure they become more sustainable, independent, and productive.
Mercy corps
The Adaptation Services for Action and Learning (ASAL Adapts) program is implemented by Mercy Corps in Northern Kenya’s Wajir and Garissa Counties. By leveraging geospatial technology and multi-faceted digital platforms, ASAL Adapts brings together pastoralist and County Government stakeholders to make decisions about natural resource management, informed by geographical analysis and climate services.
Sprout
Sprout, a project of Mercy Corps Agrifin, we are creating a sustainable future for smallholder farmers in Africa by building an ecosystem and a technical platform to bridge the gap between farmers and access to relevant, reliable, personalized decision making tools. We empower Farmer Facing Organizations (FFOs) to deliver customized expert and scientific content and hyper-local weather advisory services that directly address the challenges faced by smallholder farmers, enabling them to make better decisions about their farming activities to build resilience to climate change and improve their productivity and livelihoods.
Lersha
Lersha is a platform that uses a phy-gital model connecting 200,000+ smallholder farmers, and 250+ service providers, offering a marketplace for agricultural inputs, mechanization, access to finance, market linkage, and real-time agro-climate advisory. Lersha provides services to smallholder farmers through both online and offline solutions, utilizing the 2000+ Lersha Agent network, Call Center (7860), and the Lersha digital platform, aiming to make agriculture more accessible in six+ regions in Ethiopia and one county in Kenya.
AgBase
AgBase is a business intelligence platform providing real-time data, market insights, and a centralised hub for information on AgTech and FoodTech in Africa and other emerging markets. Backed by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO), and hosted by Briter Bridges in partnership with Mercy Corps AgriFin, this initiative aims to strengthen the knowledge infrastructure needed to catalyse investments, transform the lives of smallholder farmers and boost socio-economic growth in Africa.
SPARC
Supporting Pastoralism and Agriculture in Recurrent and Protracted Crises (SPARC) is a six-year programme that informs more feasible and cost-effective policies and investments in the drylands of Africa and the Middle East. Our research focuses on a number of themes: Reframing aid and resilience; Supporting markets and livelihoods; Understanding land and conflict; Promoting innovative solutions; Working in a changing climate and Gender equality and social inclusion. The programme is funded by the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) of the United Kingdom.
