Mtaah farm
Climate change is the single biggest health threat facing humanity. Climate impacts are already harming health, through air pollution, disease, extreme weather events, forced displacement, pressures on mental health and increased hunger and poor nutrition.
--causes and effect of climate change United Nations
On farms climate change is reducing crop yields, and nutritional quality of major cereals and lowering livestock productivity.
--Climate smart agriculture world bank
As a result it will significantly result to loss of life and adversely affect the national economy.
Climate change will put upward pressure on housing cost. For example the need to modify and maintain existing homes and higher insurance premiums will directly increase the cost of home ownership.
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The main problem to be solved?
• Difficulty to reach or access services and products within a specific region.
• Hidden talents and skills within the communities.
• Poor brand visibility.
• Increased unemployment rates within the country
• Exploitation by middle men in the sector
• Logistical overhead
Displacement of communities from their settlement areas affecting access of basic needs especially food for survival during a crisis.
Integration of digital market place for the agricultural value chain with urban and rural housing infrastructure. Mitigating effects of climate change through provision of climate resilient digital infrastructure.
BUSINESS DESCRIPTION
A unique E-Commerce platform customized for the public to access products and services conveniently through social setups. We leverage on social media platforms to aggregate and carry out research on authoritative information that influences consumer behaviour in the agricultural sector. Farmers information sharing that contributes to best practices in farming and trading.
How our project addresses loss and damage
The project targets to prevent post harvest losses by our farmers by enabling them to aggregate their produce on the platform and find a ready market through online connectivity to conveniently sell their produce before they go to waste.
The platform encourages and promotes the sell of local cultural foods this will in turn preserve the cultural heritage of the diverse African communities on how they produce their local indigenous meals.
Address the risks, challenges and opportunities of global megatrends (e.g. increasing demand for natural resources, rapid urbanization, digitalisation) in the context of climate change and biodiversity loss.
strengthen networks, Knowledge sharing and cooperation of organisations working on climate change and biodiversity related issues
Develops and promotes the use of climate smart technologies
contribute to awareness building and education regarding climate change and biodiversity
engage in cross-sectoral and multi-stakeholder cooperation and / or involve the local population.
Benefits and/or advantages of using our product/service
• Conveniently reach and access of services and products within a specific region
• Easy identification of talent and skills within the country
• Creation of brand visibility
• Reduction of unemployment rates within the country
• Stirring social impact
• Its locally designed integrated with advanced technologies, customized to suit the needs of the people.
• Improve access to affordable and reliable clean energy
• Improve supply chain transparency and traceability to bring fast and accurate visibility to sustainability issues where they arise
• Address issues of water scarcity and quality
• Reduce volume of and demand for materials that create the biggest waste footprint (plastics, electronics, food, textile), and encourage reuse/recycle opportunities
• Build effective and efficient ways to quantifiably promote, preserve, and protect biodiversity
• Reduce global food insecurity through, example, improvements to distribution of sustainable technologies.
Equitable access to sustainability solutions, education and job opportunities.
We have a cross functional team that employs its diversity to solve day to day issues when it comes to making the project to be a success.
We have employed a human centred design technique when it comes to incorporating the community to identify their unmet needs when it comes to developing and implementing the project.
- Help communities understand and incorporate climate risk in infrastructure design and planning, including through improved data collection and analysis, integration with existing systems, and aligning financial incentives such as insurance.
- Kenya
- Pilot: An organization testing a product, service, or business model with a small number of users
100+
- Speed up our progress.
- Grow our network.
- Gain clout and investor attention.
- Decreased costs and exclusive perks.
- To avoid costly mistakes.
- Financial (e.g. accounting practices, pitching to investors)
- Human Capital (e.g. sourcing talent, board development)
- Legal or Regulatory Matters
- Product / Service Distribution (e.g. delivery, logistics, expanding client base)
We have fused several technologies into one that creates an interaction platform between this spanning into several industries from health, e-commerce and agritech.
QR codes mounted on buildings to create high traffic to our solution.
Its locally designed integrated with advanced technologies, customized to suit the needs of the people.
SOCIAL IMPACT GOALS
The below are some of the social impacts that these project will contribute to:
- Improving the environment
-Improving public health
-Improving the safety of the beneficiaries of the project
-Improving the quality of life of the beneficiaries of the project
-Improving education
-Improving job opportunities
-Improving the well-being of the benefiting community
-Reducing poverty
-To create sustainable infrastructure during a climate change crisis
- 1. No Poverty
- 2. Zero Hunger
- 3. Good Health and Well-being
- 6. Clean Water and Sanitation
- 8. Decent Work and Economic Growth
- 9. Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
- 10. Reduced Inequalities
- 11. Sustainable Cities and Communities
- 12. Responsible Consumption and Production
- 13. Climate Action
- 15. Life on Land
- 17. Partnerships for the Goals
Increased number of users that we will be able to reach through the digital platform
Increased number of the underserved population that we will be able to serve
Increased number of construction firms that will agree to work with us to integrate our solution with their infrastructure.
The impact of how many users have benefited through the usage of our system.
Improvement of better integrated solutions with the already existing housing infrastructure.
We endeavour to develop an enabling environment that will stir up creativity and innovative solutions to sustain our ecosystem. This will eventually create transformative solutions for our communities.
We have used web based solutions e-commerce,social media platforms and mobile application as the backbone of our system.
- A new application of an existing technology
- Big Data
- Software and Mobile Applications
- Kenya
- Kenya
- Hybrid of for-profit and nonprofit
- We create awareness of unconscious bias.
- We communicate the importance of managing bias.
- We promote pay equity.
- We develop a strategic training programs.
- We mix up our teams.
Our project will...
• Contribute to the region’s financial development
• Enable the facility to reach and administer tele-services to a wider community
• Protect jobs within the region
• Create jobs for inhabitants of the region
• Source local products and raw materials
• Respect regional values, customs and culture
• Communicate openly and honestly with the local community
• Build local content
• Our contribution will go back to the community to empower them by boosting high interactions among members of the community
• Promote sale of local products and services
• Create a network of experts and knowledge within the climate change sphere.
- Individual consumers or stakeholders (B2C)
We endeavor to use paid subscription model for all the businesses in the value chain that would be part of the platform/solution.
Other sources of funding will include:
Donations
Equity
Debt
Crowd funding
Grants
Currently we are on pre-revenue stage to increase the number of users of the platform.
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