In the almost 13 years of Sistema.bio, we have learned a couple of things: 1) The future of farming is female. Most of our promoters and technicians on the field are female, 2) Farmers and our workforce deserve high-quality technology and world-class services, 3) You need to connect to people’s hearts, education, and culture. That connection brought by women’s empowerment
Hardly any impact can be achieved without support. At this moment in time, there are over 22,000 Sistema.bio digesters producing clean, renewable energy and organic fertilizer for small and medium farms around the world. And each one of those biodigesters is the direct result of the combined efforts of our sales agents, our technicians, our engineers, our distributors and, of
Brianda Suárez Graphic Designer The world is experiencing a wave of crucial transformations. Yet these impacts affect us all in a differentiated way according to many variables, including gender. This is where Ecofeminism comes in. Why speak about “feminism” and “ecology” in the same theory and practice? Is there really a relationship between the two? I remember that at the
PURNIMA JHA INDIA Communications Associate I remember being in Grade 4 when the teachers at my school started raising awareness about the environment in all our classes. We were told about the degradation of the environment across the planet because of the years of exploitation of resources by humans, deforestation, industrialization, among others. What could a bunch of fourth
ELENA COLL EDITOR & COPYWRITER Over the past 15 months (perhaps even a little more), I’ve had the opportunity to work in not only women-led but all-female teams. Whether this was an unconscious decision or a lucky coincidence is still unclear to me, but one thing is for sure: my life has changed. This is not to say that
PURNIMA JHA INDIA Communications Associate Women compose the majority of the workforce in agriculture worldwide. In India, there are over 150 million farmers out of which, as per official numbers, only 60 million women are involved in agriculture. The number, in reality, would certainly be higher, as women in every farmer household in rural India participate in agriculture in
MADRIN MAINA KENYA TECHNICAL OPERATIONS MANAGER I have been Technical Operations Manager East Africa at Sistema.bio for two years now. When I joined, Sistema.bio Kenya already had a well-established technical team that had managed to install 1,200 biodigesters in 2018 alone. My challenge was to keep the team motivated, train them on new skills, and establish an R&D division that
Jessica Carey Sales & training manager Seeing Jackline Cherotich perform in our External Partners Training for Biogas Solutions Uganda Limited was a very touching experience for me. I met Jackie in November, 2019, my second week in the field with Sistema.bio in Kericho County in Kenya. It was a rainy day, cool weather, tea fields glistening with a deep lush
”Great things can be done using animal manure” -Lorena, Xaltitla, Mexico For your next meal, take a second and look at your plate before you start eating. Can you imagine what that plate would look like if women stopped working for a day? That plate would look almost empty. Forget the grains, the vegetables, and the meat. You can even
