D-Olivette Bio-Solutions

Conflict, Economic Shocks and Climate Extremes with Soaring Energy and Agricultural Input Prices are combining to create a Food Crisis of unprecedented proportions with Africa bearing the most negative impact. A recent research targeting small-holder farmers reported a shocking increase in operational costs to over 60% in 2022. The prices of urea fertilizer doubled in the first quarter of 2022 and projected to grow by over 300% before Q4 of 2024. Also, the PAN (Poultry Association of Nigeria) claimed over 50% of its members shut down their businesses within 2022 and 2023 due to increasing poultry feed costs; prices of livestock feed in Nigeria went beyond 1,000% from 2014 to 2024.

Like any business, no profit means farmers will go out of business, forcing food shortage and crisis.  With more governments pulling further plugs on food, energy and fertilizer subsidies, there is an urgent need for a home-grown regenerative agricultural solution that can sustainably help farmers create clean energy, animal feed and fertilizer from organic waste to reduce operation costs by over 50% while entirely eliminating waste and pollution.

D-Olivette is an R&D social enterprise that merges AI, Big Data & Biogenics to provide closed-loop agricultural solutions and resource recovery from over 100 types of organic waste. Its main goal is to ensure agrarian settlements and farms sustainably create their own clean energy, fertilizer and animal feed plus farm waste management solutions; therefore reducing operation costs by over 50% using D-Olivette’s Hardware, AI-Chatbot and Organic Bio-Enzymes.

D-Olivette’s innovations transform every type of agricultural, organic and wastewater into clean energy, organic animal feed, fertilizer and reusable clean water, while allowing integration of nutrient cycling and waste-to-bio-resource advancement.

In 2023, D-Olivette’s innovations powered over 10,000 off-grid homes and farms day-to-day; it processed over 100,000 mt of organic waste into clean water and clean energy e.g. for cooking fuel & electricity; organic animal feed supplements and fertilizer. Its 360° AI Chatbot which communicates in local African languages got over 50,000 requests from farmers and rural women. D-Olivette's innovation was validated by third parties such as GIZ, Footprint Africa & CarbonTrust to have mitigated over 30,000 tons of CO2 eq. in 2022.

D-OLIVETTE'S CORE PRODUCTS INCLUDE:

(i) Kitchen Box: designed for rural women for household clean cooking; transform household organic waste into clean energy for daily cooking, low base load electricity and bioslurry for household gardens.

(ii) The Bio-Tank: engineered for small-holder farmers to help reduce farms operation cost by over 50%.

(iii) The Bio-Station: a hybrid systems that transform different organic waste in a farm or rural settlement into clean energy and bioslurry production hub.

(iv) D-Olivette's Bio-Enzymes: Organic bio-stimulant for more biogas, bioslurry and reusable water production; these are made from natural ingredients and totally bio-friendly

(v)The Bio-360 AI Chatbot: assistive AI in local African languages to best decision how to transform organic waste and wastewater into clean energy, water and fertilizer, animal feed, etc. For example:

• Cassava wastewater (200kg) + H2o-Bioenzyme (0.25 liter) = 126 Liters clean water, 30+ m³ biogas and 39 Kg of Animal Feed Bioslurry

• Mangoes Waste (100kg) + Cow Waste (100kg) = 19kg of fish feed (dried) + Biogas (32kg).

D-Olivette's purpose is to help users better optimize organic waste for clean energy or produce organic animal feed or fertilizer, and protect the planet.

CUSTOMERS:

Primary: (i) Rural Families (ii) Small-Holder Farmers (iii) Commercial Farmers (iv) Agrarian and (v) Off-grid Communities (vi) Restaurants

Secondary: (i) Small businesses in Off-grid Settlements (ii) Water recycling business (iii) Sludge Treatment Company and others (iv) Biogas Businesses (v) Laboratories (vi) Clean Cooking Organizations.

OUR KEY CUSTOMERS & HOW WE ADDRESS THEIR PROBLEMS:

(i) RURAL WOMEN: The WHO confirmed that firewood emission kills about 500,000 women and children in Africa annually. This is mainly due to energy-poverty. With the on-going global energy crisis, more African women are shifting away from gas stoves to charcoal and firewood. Presently, the price of gas in Nigeria about $1 per kg; these surge in price is pushing more households into using wood fuel which emits incredible amount of co2-emission. Homes are often filled with fumes which families ignorantly inhale. D-Olivette is tackling these challenges with its Kitchen Box; which turns household organic waste e.g. chicken poop, food waste, and other types of organic waste into clean cooking fuel, while producing clean electricity e.g. through use of low Kilo-volt-amperes (Kva) combustion engines to burn biogas to produce clean electricity produced by the Kitchen box. D-Olivette is targeting this segment, and providing them with clean cooking fuel, clean electricity and bioslurry for uses in their kitchens, gardens and farms through its Kitchen Boxes.
(ii) Small-Holder Farmers: The All Farmers Association of Nigeria confirmed about 9% of its members abandoned the farming profession in 2022 due to (1) increasing price of diesel which farmers used for energy; (2) soaring cost of chemical fertilizer and (3) the skyrocketing prices of animal-feed. 
D-Olivette is helping small-holder farmers by installing Bio-Stations on their farms; the innovation transforms existing organic waste into clean energy, organic fertilizer and animal feed supplement. Now, they depend less on harmful diesel and chemical fertilizer which harms the soil, environment and even their health; while saving more money.
(iii) Off-grid Communities & Others: More off-grid communities are shifting to D-Olivette’s innovations which if properly maintained can last for as long as 50 years, making it very durable. D-Olivette’s Bio-Stations are been used by agrarian, off-grid and rural communities to treat landfills and transform their waste into clean energy, and sustainable agricultural input such as organic animal feed, fertilizer and biogas. Communities such as Gudugba are today processing averagely over 100 tons of organic waste monthly with D-Olivette’s innovation; which has helped the community totally shift away from expensive diesel to self-sustaining clean energy and agricultural inputs. 
(iv) Other Benefits: D-Olivette's has beyond biogas and bio-fertilizer production; it is providing R&D solutions for organic bio-optimization such as:
(i) Bio-Resources Recovery from 100+ Biodegradables
(ii) Regenerative Agriculture 
(iii) Renewable Energy 
(iv) Waste Management 
(v) Reforestation 
(vi) Digitization of Bio-refinery technology
(vii) Climate Mitigation 
(viii) And women & rural empowerment

An installation of Bio-Station in Gudugba, processes 50 tons of organic waste monthly into over 30,000 kwa of clean electricity, and other clean agricultural inputs. The farm settlement today sells excess biogas and bio-fertilizer to rural housewives and neighboring farms.

THE TEAM:

D-Olivette's is the shortened nickname of 3 field researchers who co-founded the social enterprise to tackle real pain points backed by raw data and firsthand experiences. The core team members are cut from diverse educational, technical, ethnic and gender background. The team’s backgrounds include applied research, agtech, renewable energy, finance, IT, and environmental management. The 3 founders combined have won over 40 local and international awards, and have successfully managed different projects for D-Olivette sponsored by global organizations such as the IEEE, UN Women, the AFD, SIDA, NAAEE, GEEP, the Clinton Foundation, the Development Bank of Nigeria and Integra Capital S.A. amongst others in 3 countries: Nigeria, Benin and recently Argentina. They have worked with over 20,000 beneficiaries, with focus on SDG 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 13 and SDG 15. 

COLLABORATION WITH COMMUNITIES

D-Olivette engages its stakeholders during its project design and implementation; it works with its target locations and communities to better understand their pain points. It also get volunteers from target communities to play key roles, while creating comprehensive environmental education to better inform our stakeholders and communities members why our project is a win-win situation for them, for us and the environment. D-Olivette always aim to accomplish this while building stronger partnerships with stakeholders, and bringing a greater sense of growth, ownership, and satisfaction to our team members. In the end, beneficiaries, stakeholders and communities take 100% ownership of the project and provide invaluable insights into expected and unexpected positive impacts it has in their society and lives.

There are over 20,000 customers using D-Olivette's Bio-Solutions daily, and a survey in 2023 confirmed over 100,000 people are directly and indirectly impacted by our innovations. Also, D-Olivette has expanded operations into Republic of Benin in 2023, and started implementing project within its agrarian communities. Also, in late 2023, it signed an agreement with Integra Capital S.A. to train 1,000 farmers Argentina in 2024 to use its technologies.

We strongly believe the program will provide immense benefits in the real mentorship, networking, provision of new data, skills, access to funding, vetting, validation, visibility and exposure, support, accountability, learning and feedback and access to resources and tools. 

Biodigesters technologies haven't evolved much; D-Olivette is reinventing and transforming this innovation by making domestic, smarter, IoT-enabled and more efficient through R&D by: 

(i) Merging AI: Our innovation provides assistive AI Chatbot that guides customers to optimize our products for different functionalities: e.g. clean cooking, electricity, septic application, organic fertilizer, biogas, animal feed production, waste management, algae fermentation, etc. Our Bio-360 AI Chatbot which communicates in English and local African languages uses over 100k Dataset from RIKEN BRC, the world largest Bio-Resources Center and other reputable bio-resources institutions.
(ii) Affordability: our domestic products price starts from $99 and above. Payments can be split into 6 months or longer $99 / 6 = $16.5 and made monthly. Also, our organic Bio-Enzymes sells as low as $0.68 per kg. 
(iii) Payment Model: D-Olivette also rents out a bulk of its tech and uses a Pay-As-You-Use model for small-holder farmers, restaurants and abattoirs; customers get to pay as less as $1 daily.
(iv) Bio-Optimization: D-Olivette provides 5 different types of bio-enzymes for organic waste anaerobic acceleration and optimization to produce 3x more biogas and improved bioslurry production faster and effectively. 
(v) Research: D-Olivette prides itself for been heavy on research and tech; its digester systems processes over 100+ bio-resources e.g. saw dust, fecal waste and others into clean energy and more food. It also produces a very affordable Bio-Enzymes that converts organic waste into for Microbial fungicide, clean water and more.
(vi) Easy-to-use
(vii) Requires little or zero maintenance. 
(viii) Varieties: Our product are made for kitchen, household septic, and farms plus others
(ix) ADAPTABILITY: there is easy interconnection between our biodigester and existing gas cooker, electrical combustion engines and installations. 
(x) PREFABRICATED KIT: our systems are made for faster assembling, transportation and easy installation. The Bio-Tank can be assembled within 30 minutes.
(xi) DURABILITY: comes with 5 years warranty
(xii) Sensor-Inclusive: Uses sensors such as Co2 and FlowEVO sensors to ensure zero hydrocarbon or toxins.
(xiii) 100% Hygienic: No odor, no pest, totally clean and safe

OUR THEORY OF CHANGE:

(i) INPUT:
• Unique Approach: Customers query our AI -Chabot about what to do with available organic waste, how best to optimize its use for clean energy, agricultural resource recovery e.g. clean water, organic animal feed supplement, fertilizer, etc.
• Sustainable Solution: Our tech takes in organic waste materials such as food scraps, agricultural residues, or animal manure.
• Digestion: Inside, microorganisms break down the organic waste through anaerobic digestion, producing biogas and digestate.
• Extra Optimization Using Bio-Enzymes: D-Olivette laboratory has developed 5 organic bio-enzymes, that accelerates the process faster e.g. cutting down the anaerobic digestion from 2 weeks to only 5 days during hot temperature. D-Olivette's metalloenzymes accelerate clean water recovery from wastewater.

OUTPUTS: 
• Biogas Production 
• Resource Recovery from Bioslurry. 
• Optimization both output using AI: D-Olivette's premium 360-AI chatbot will provide a bioslurry analysis and provide insights into how to optimize the bioslurry for either clean reusable water, organic animal feed production, fertilizer or protein production using bio-enzymes or indirect sun drying process.

INTERMEDIATE OUTPUT:
(i) Clean Energy Generation: D-Olivette provides ISO-certified biogas holder bags, which can be used to capture and transport biogas; the biogas can be used as a renewable energy source for cooking, heating, or electricity generation, reducing reliance on fossil fuels and mitigating greenhouse gas emissions.
(ii) Waste Management: By diverting organic waste from landfills and utilizing it, our systems reduces the generation of GHG

ULTIMATE OUTCOME:
(i) Renewable Energy Access: Communities or facilities utilizing our innovations gain access to a reliable source of renewable energy, contributing to energy security and reducing dependence on traditional energy sources.
(ii) Waste Reduction: Through efficient organic waste management, our systems contribute to reducing the overall volume of waste generated, mitigating environmental degradation, and improving sanitation in surrounding areas.
(iii) Environmental Benefits: Communities that have adopted our innovation are reducing GHG, conserving natural resources, and promoting sustainable practices. A recent survey showed that the Ilari Community in Ogun state, Nigeria which installed 100,000 liters of D-Olivette's Bio-Station are in shortage of organic waste; hence they are helping neighboring communities generate biogas and bioslurry for a fee.

IMPACT:
(i) Reduce Carbon FootPrint: A CarbonTrust validation reported that D-Olivette's innovation helped mitigate over 30,000 tons eq. of c02 in 2022. Target communities are shifting away from firewood, charcoal and other unclean energy which generates high emission in homes and farms.
(ii) Energy Security: Communities or facilities equipped with our solutions experience improved energy access, reduced energy costs, and increased resilience to energy supply disruptions.
(iii) Waste Management Improvement: Our tech adoption leads to sustainable waste management practices, cleaner environments, and better public health outcomes.
(iv) Environmental Sustainability: By harnessing renewable energy and reducing greenhouse gas emissions, our solutions contribute to broader environmental sustainability goals, including climate change mitigation and conservation of natural resources.
(v) Economic Benefits: More rural women and small-holder farmers are saving costs in areas of clean energy, fertilizer and animal feed plus waste management; while having more money to improve their businesses and employ more workers

(vi) Food Security and other benefits

We track Economic, Environmental and Social plus Partnerships, Newly Signed LOIs, and other impacts which include:

(i) Sales & Revenue: D-Olivette grew its revenue by over 30% from 2021 to 2023; it is presently targeting 60% in 2024

(ii) Leads Conversion: Over 40% of generated lead were converted in 2023; this will be grown into 60% in 2024

(iii) Customer Retention: 80% of new customers in 2023 were recommended by old customers; it seeks to increase this number beyond 100% in 2025

(iv) Financial Benefits: Customers using our products confirmed saving over 50% in farming costs

(v) GHG mitigation: D-Olivette's innovation is helping reduce agricultural pollution and waste; its innovation processed thousands mt of organic waste in 2022, it is targeting 60,000 co2 eq. mitigation in 2025.

(vi) Accessible Clean Energy: provides easier access to clean energy, organic fertilizer and animal feed supplement through biogas and bioslurry production from organic waste, there are over 20,000 customers using our innovations, D-Olivette seeks to double the number by 2025

(vii) Ease of Use: Better optimization of domestic biodigester tech; e.g. using AI + local languages for improved biogas and food production; D-Olivette is poised to launching the Android and IOS version of its chatbot by Q4 of 2025 while adding more local languages and Dataset.

(viii) Agreements & LOIs signed: D-Olivette recently signed an LOI with Integra Capital S.A. to expand operations into rural regions of Argentina, to empower farmers; it signed over 30 in 2022.

(ix) Awards & Industry Recognition: D-Olivette has won global awards from the IEEE, Royal Academy of Engineering, Res4Africa, Halcyon, AGRA, Generation Africa, GIZ, SIDA and recently JICA: Japan International Cooperation Agency

(x) Research Publication: D-Olivette pride itself for research and occasionally publishes new findings in the field of bioremediation; its latest was on valorization of mangoes bioslurry for aquaculture.

D-OLIVETTE SDG IMPACT:

(i) SDG 2: Zero hunger: Our solutions produces biogas and bioslurry (the byproduct). Bioslurry is an organic and high-quality animal feed and fertilizer to improve food security.

(ii) SDG 3: Good health and well-being: Our bio-refineries are used for clean cooking and significantly reduce household indoor air pollution.

(iii) SDG 5: Gender equality: Our clean fuel replaces the use of firewood for cooking. It, therefore, reduces the workload of women to collect wood.

(iv) SDG 6: Clean Water and Sanitation: our solutions are also used for wastewater treatment during which anaerobic digestion breaks down wastewater into reusable water for agricultural purposes.

(iv) SDG7: Provision of clean energy for cooking, heat and electrification.

(v) SDG 8: Decent work and economic growth: D-Olivette has created over 5,000 jobs, e.g. installers, technicians, biogas and bioslurry resale for rural women

(vi) SDG 13: Climate action: our innovation reduces greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by displacing fossil fuels and by reducing methane emissions from organic waste into clean energy

(viii) SDG 15: Life on Land: We are discouraging deforestation in rural Nigeria and Africa at large

D-Olivette's 360°Chatbot uses LLM from Dataset gathered from dozens of BRCs (Bio-Resources Research Centers) for sustainable Resource Recovery e.g. clean energy, agricultural input, waste management and algae optimization. Its Chatbot provides insights to rural women and small-holder farmers using English and local African languages on how create a Closed-loop Agricultural Systems by using D-Olivette's innovations and enzymes. 

D-Olivette's hardware make use of carbon sequestering processes, especially the manipulation of microorganisms for the production of clean fuel and other bio-resources e.g. animal feed supplement, fertilizer, etc. from organic waste.

Farmers and rural women get to use any of our Bio-Enzymes which are engineered to accelerate the AD (anaerobic digestion) phases e.g. (i) hydrolysis (ii) acidification (iii) acetic acid production, and finally (iv) methanization within 3 to 7 days. This leads to breakdown of organic waste into biogas and bioslurry.

The biogas is stored in a removable ISO-certified gasholder for easy transportation; biogas can be burnt as cooking gas, or used to generate electricity with zero emission. The bioslurry can come out as either organic fertilizer or animal feed supplement; therefore cutting the co2 emission from organic waste.

D-Olivette innovations uses sensor technologies such as FLOWEVO series together with CH4 sensors to ensure its output qualities are 100% safe and clean for use; it also provides dozens of safe options for uses of biogas and bioslurry for broad applications.

11 full-time, 8 part-time, and 5 contractors

4 years

Through improved employee engagement, development and career growth, diversity and inclusion, and a streamlined HR process, D-Olivette priority is building a world class organization where the best mind build a lifelong career. The organization has worked with the biggest and smallest ethnic communities in Nigeria and Benin; it has empowered rural women, and continues to reach some of the most underserved people in the planet, e.g. the Jibu Mountain People, the Ilaje River People, and the Bush People of Ogbere. D-Olivette's core team members grew up in villages, IDPs: Displaced Persons Camps; they understand the need for inclusion, which is why the project team members speak over 20 indigenous languages and are passionate about empowering minorities. D-Olivette continues to work with diverse groups and it remain a colorful organization with people with different gender, orientation and background. 

MODELS INCLUDE:

(i) B2B2C (ii) B2G

Profit Margin: 60% Per Product sold

Sources of revenues:

1: Hardware Sales: Kitchen Box, Bio-Tank & Biogas Holder Bags

2: Bio-Enzymes Sales: H20ptimize, Earthlizer, Etc

3: Payment for Bio-360° AI Chatbot Use by Non-Customers

4: Services/Training/Consultation: Installation, Training, Etc

5: Project Partnership & Collaboration

6: Hardware Support: Extended Warranties, Repairs, Etc

7: 3rd parties accessories: hoses, gas meters, gas pump, etc

PAYMENT METHODS:

1. Outright payment for hardware

2. BNPL: Buy now pay later model: Smallholder farmers, outright payment or a monthly fees of $5.72 x 12 months

3: Pay-As-You-Use model for small-holder farmers, restaurants and abattoirs; customers get to pay as less as $1 daily.

CUSTOMERS:

Primary: (i) Rural Families (ii) Small-Holder Farmers (iii) Commercial Farmers (iv) Agrarian and (v) Off-grid Communities (vi) Restaurants

Secondary: (i) Small businesses in Off-grid Settlements (ii) Water recycling business (iii) Sludge Treatment Company and others (iv) Biogas Businesses (v) Laboratories (vi) Clean Cooking Organizations.

MARKETING CHANNELS: (i) Rural women association (ii) community associations, (iii) local markets (iv) retailers (v) market days (vii) town hall meetings (viii) demo days (ix) digital & social media marketing (x) direct marketing (xi) distributors and others.

(i) Scaling output: comfortably boost deliveries by more than 50% before Q4 of 2024 and increase incrementally

(ii) Target additional 50 new agrarian settlements in Nigeria and Benin. Grow the number incrementally as well.

(iii) Become investor ready: presently collaborating with Village Capital, Viridian Africa, and Terra Energi to become 100% vetted and ready for fundraising by Q1 of 2025.

(iv) Reach the final phase in Gold Standard Certification application

(v) Hire more qualified talents into our team: with special focus on research, marketing and improve team members benefits

(vi) Use traditional, social, and digital marketing to reach a new 100,000 customers by Q4 of 2026

(vii) Seize the opportunity provided by Integra Capital S.A. to create a niche in Argentina and then explore expansion into South America by 2026

(viii) Launch newer and more improved versions of the Kitchen Boxes, Bio-Tank and Bio-Station to compete with global solutions

(ix) Expand AI Chatbot database to 1m+ Datasets and add more languages 

(x) Collect data through interviews, surveys, questionnaires, etc to better determine our goals, impacts and the next milestones to set.