Food systems background

Food Systems

Technology for resilient and equitable food futures.

Africa's food systems must evolve to withstand climate change, population growth, and market shocks. Our approach builds food system resilience through digital extension services, data-driven supply chains, and youth-led agri-innovation ecosystems.

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KEY METRICS

Our food systems work supports smallholder farmers by addressing market linkages, storage, and the food supply chains and micro-insurance and credit. These address productivity innovations, access to markets, food security.

By combining modern agro-informatics and traditional farming methods that drive enhanced agricultural productivity and local foods, and expanding market access and innovative scaling up training, creating sustainable solutions.

3,780+
FARMERS REACHED
110M+
MARKET LINKAGES ENHANCED
8M+
DIGITAL EXTENSION TOOLS DEPLOYED
63M+
YOUTH AGRI-PRENEURS SUPPORTED

Meet the Food Systems Innovators

Our innovators are transforming how food systems work through technological intelligence to market access.They are building robust supply chain and agriculture digital advisory systems, and youth-led agri-tech ventures, enabling thousands of smallholder farmers.

Food Farm Delivery Tools
Food Farm Delivery Tools

Technology tools that connect farmers and delivery advisory services ensuring real-time access to relevant climate systems and financial products and enabling real-time market interaction for farm productivity enhanced income, and digital access to financial services and digital logistics solution.

AI Climate Analytics for Agriculture
AI Climate Analytics for Agriculture

Technologies that power farmer's productivity by providing real-time predictive climate analytics and timely delivery of digital agriculture information and real-time data. Combining remote climate insights with mapping functions, and early warning functions, and digital early warning capacity at community level.

How We Work

Community-led synthesis

Community-led synthesis

Digital market infrastructure

Digital market infrastructure

Policy innovation with ministries

Policy innovation with ministries

Monitoring & evaluation frameworks

Monitoring & evaluation frameworks

Resources

Digital agriculture toolkits, Market linkage frameworks, Soil and crop data dashboards, and food systems resilience reports.

Agricultural toolkits
Agricultural toolkits
Open datasets
Open datasets
Implementation playbooks
Implementation playbooks