Empower Farmers to
Build Resilience to Climate Change
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Our Story
Our team has been working with smallholder farmers in developing countries for over a decade. We have personally met with hundreds of farmers who are increasingly suffering from the negative effects of climate change and are struggling to access easy-to-use and personalised information on how best to cope and adapt.
We are frustrated with the short project cycles in international development and weary of a growing over-reliance of those in need of donor funding.
Our aim was to harness the power of the private sector, technology and ingenuity of farmers to access information directly through their smartphones. To empower them to make informed decisions and choices on how to adapt and strengthen their own resilience to climate change.
So in 2019 we created farmbetter - a mobile app that uses a farmer’s location, situation and farming goals to put tailored and actionable know-how directly in the hands of the farmer.
News
farmbetter was selected as one of the Resilient Agriculture Innovations for Nature (RAIN) Challenge Round 2 winners!
farmbetter is pleased to announce we have been selected as one of the RAIN Challenge winners! Over the next few months, we’ll collaborate with the Global Resilience Partnership and Shockwave to scale our project, Empowering Smallholders: Scaling Sustainable Farming and Market Access in Central Kenya.
The award includes tailored mentorship, leadership support, and collaboration opportunities, in addition to a $15,000 grant to scale. This support will enable us to build a sustainable ecosystem that uplifts farmers economically while ensuring long-term environmental sustainability.
farmbetter starts a new project with SWISSAID!
We are collaborating with SWISSAID in Colombia and Ecuador on a 1.5 year project to use the farmbetter app within their AeD-Labs project. AeD-LABs is a pilot project working to collect and share farmers’ and food systems stakeholders’ agroecological innovations for climate change adaptation. Farmbetter’s technology facilitates this exchange of adaptation solutions, which support farming communities facing related challenges in similar contexts or ecosystems. The farmbetter app matches the unique farmer profile with peer-reviewed sustainable land management practices from the World Overview of Conservation Approaches and Technologies’ global database. Through this project, farmbetter will reach 800 farmers in Colombia and Ecuador with sustainable farming practices, and can disseminate the collected AeD-LABs adaptation solutions to a wider audience.
Our Network
farmbetter has a strategic partnership with the World Overview of Conservation
Approaches and Technologies (WOCAT). We incorporate best practices from WOCAT in our app to give farmers access to over 1,000 peer-reviewed solutions on sustainable land management.
farmbetter was rated as 233 on the 2019 FoodTech 500 - the world’s first definitive list of the global entrepreneurial talent at the intersection between food, technology, and sustainability - and was nominated for the Curt Bergfors Food Planet Prize and featured by the editors.
farmbetter has also successfully applied and received seed funding and support from:
farmbetter is currently involved in four projects supporting small-scale farmers in nine countries - Ecuador, Colombia, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Burkina Faso, India and Nepal.
EIT-Seedbed competition 2019
Global Resilience Partnership’s Innovation Challenge
InnoSuisse
Our Partners
Awards
Milken-Motsepe Prize in AgriTech Finalist | The Milken-Motsepe Prize in AgriTech is a global competition for innovative solutions to increase economic value to farmers in Africa. In February 2022, farmbetter was announced as a Finalist team in this prestigious competition.
farmbetter was nominated for the Curt Bergfors Food Planet Prize and featured by the editors. Around 83% of the world’s small-scale farms can be found in Sub-Saharan Africa or Asia. The farmers cultivating these plots of land use less than 2 hectares each.
farmbetter was featured in the list of FoodTech500 in 2019 and again in 2023.
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