By Alex Eaton If you are unsure where to start on Earth Day, try food. The impact of what you eat, where you buy it and who grew it matters more than you may realize. Agriculture accounts for about a quarter of human global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. 80% of the land that is managed by humans if for growing
Sistema.bio family is growing! This Q1 had significant achievements, including the incorporation of new leadership positions to the team. In Mexico city headquarters, Graciela Álvarez took the leadership as LATAM director, and she will be consolidating Mexico, Nicaragua and Colombia HUBS operations with new commercial strategies to maximize Sistema.bio impact in the North, Central, and South America. In addition, David
Second investment round We are pleased to announce that we are on track to closing a 12M USD investment round that will fund Sistema.bio’s growth and optimization for the coming years. We are proud to have the following investors and creditors already committed to the round: DILA Capital, ENGIE Rassembleurs d’Energies, EU Electrifi Fund, Lendahand, Triodos Bank and AlphaMundi. We
To the date we have sold more than 6,500 biodigesters, our goal for 2019 is to sell 5,000 more. 2019 is the Game Changer year for Sistema.bio, we have strategic plans to grow as a company. We expect to bring clean and renewable energy and biofertilizer to more than 60,000 people over the world by the end of 2019. For
The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) estimates that 33% of world soil is already moderately to highly degraded due to erosion, nutrient depletion, acidification, urbanization, and chemical pollution. The world population rely on this valuable resource for livelihood and therefore, it’s time to build sustainable and cost-effective agricultural systems in order to reverse the trends. Biofertilizer presents a ray of
Attended the 5th devolution conference in Kakamega Each year since 2013, the Devolution conference takes place in Kenya with the objective of creating governments that are closer to the people sharing resources, responsibilities and power to incentivize public participation. One of the main topics in this years conference was agriculture, energy, health and development and Sistema.bio participated to share how
Partnerships to scale to Uganda With Africa having waited for along time for products & services and business models that actually meets their needs, we are happy to announce that we have now spread our wings to Uganda. An effort that wouldn’t have been easy without our partners Biogas Solutions Uganda (BSU) and Heifer International. This forms our first step
Sales department hit a high of 905 digesters Kenya is one of our fastest growing markets. In May, the sales department hit a high of 905 digesters while the technical team installed 38 digesters every single week despite the challenging weather conditions. Our expansion to Eldoret and Meru has seen the installation of both the small scale and large scale
In April of this year the earth reached the highest concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere recorded since human beings inhabited it. The current record is 411 parts per million (ppm), in 1880 it was 280 ppm. These changes of gases concentration in the atmosphere has a direct impact on the temperature of the earth and its ability to
Most people forget what they have consumed once they put it away in the trash can and then they stop being aware of the waste they generated. However, the problem lies not only in the ignorance of where the waste we produce goes, but also in the inefficient ways in which nature’s resources are used to end up in landfills
