SunCulture

This innovation supports the People element.

By
Samir Ibrahim & Charlie Nichols

From
Kenya

Pitch
Since the sale of our first kit in 2013, SunCulture has been on a mission to help smallholder farmers in Africa improve both crop yields and quality. We are driven to constantly innovate and improve our technology to make solar powered irrigation solutions truly affordable for the millions of farmers on the continent. To date, SunCulture has reached and helped raise the incomes of around 700 smallholder farmers directly, who each hire five people on average. SunCulture farmers make $14,000 USD per acre, per year, on average, and some have increased their yields by 300 percent.

Stage
Product

Web
http://sunculture.com/ @SunCultureKenya

Extra
Media: https://unreasonable.is/smallholder-farmers-succeed-kids-go-school/ Award: https://about.bnef.com/blog/new-energy-pioneers-sunculture/ Award: http://www.solutions-summit.org/featured-solutions-new/#solutions2017 Media: https://hbr.org/2017/05/how-digital-technology-is-changing-farming-in-africa Award: http://www.lelab.info/start-up-en-competition/ Video: https://youtu.be/5YI0yROYqL0 Video: https://youtu.be/ZpkCOdp_MCo Quote: “Farmers grow our food. There’s no reason they should be hungry.”

Tags
Agriculture; Water; Energy; Manufacturing

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