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Sistema.bio global achievements

We won the Ashden Awards 2019! We won the Ashden Clean Cooking Award as part of the first-ever London Climate Action Week. Six years ago we applied to the Ashden Awards, but at that time, Sistema.bio was not a global company. Based in Mexico, our founders Camilo Pagés and Alex Eaton used to build the biodigesters in a garage! This was part of our journey, and it was not the right time for us to win the award. We needed…
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Reasons why we should promote a gender-balanced agriculture Read more >>

Reasons why we should promote a gender-balanced agriculture

Today we commemorate International Women’s Day and this is not about celebration, it’s about raising awareness and promoting gender equality at all levels. When we think about agriculture it’s common to think of it as a profession for men, but that’s not true and the numbers can’t lie. The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) estimates that 70% of work in Latin-America's agriculture is done by women and according to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), 76% of…
Cultivating better jobs for a better life, World Day of Social Justice Read more >>

Cultivating better jobs for a better life, World Day of Social Justice

The United Nations (UN) established February 20th as the World Day of Social Justice. This year’s theme is centered on job creation, better quality jobs and better access to jobs to achieve peace and development. One of the key points to achieve social justice is to eliminate the barriers that people face, everyone must have access to food, clothes, and shelter. According to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) farmers in agriculture deal with many risks every day and…
Sistema.bio holds the Biofertilizer Summit 2018 Read more >>

Sistema.bio holds the Biofertilizer Summit 2018

From October 15th  to 20th 2018, the Biofertilizer Summit was held in our offices in Nairobi and Githunguri in Kenya. At this summit, we convened the three regions with the greatest development (Mexico, India, and Kenya) with the intention of generating an international strategic plan for research and development on education and promotion of the use of biofertilizers. We worked together with the team of the Regional Program of Biofertilizer and Biogas in the Yucatan Peninsula of IRRI-México to create…
Sistema.bio enters into a partnership with Nicaraguan MFI FUNDENUSE Read more >>

Sistema.bio enters into a partnership with Nicaraguan MFI FUNDENUSE

On January 9th, 2019, Nicaraguan Sistema.bio branch managed to establish a partnership with the Nicaraguan microfinance company FUNDENUSE to make available two million dollars in credits for Nicaraguan farmers. This is a collaboration that will have a great social impact for micro, small and medium scale holder farmers in this country. The objective of the agreement is to implement the biodigester technology of Sistema.bio through credit funds from FUNDENUSE, organization that already has 26 years of successful history contributing to…
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Awards and products

Sistema.bio emerges the 1st runners-up in the Renewable Energy Awards 2018 We emerged the 1st runners-up in the Renewable Energy Awards 2018. We are truly grateful for this achievement and we appreciate all our stakeholders for making it happen. We look forward to a better and bigger 2019 in our journey to #CreatingValueFromWaste Biogas boilers launched in Kenya “Now I have biogas, what next?”. This is a common question from our clients across the regions we operate in. Sistema.bio boilers…
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Research and development

Sistema.bio Biol experts summit in Kenya The international Sistema.bio team were in Kenya discussing all the equipment available for biol application, the promotion strategies for this fertilizer, the methodology for its application and the manual adapted to different cultures. The team also worked in the field in Githunguri; Kiambu County, to test the tools used in Kenya and to share with the technicians the outcome of workshops in Yucatán; Mexico which focused on training farmers on the use of biol.…
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Operations

HR training with Shortlist in Kenya and India Our team forms the backbone of our success and investing in them is definitely a worthwhile investment. We held two workshops with Shortlist in India and Kenya to understand the full cycle of recruiting, developing and retaining good talent. Some of the specific topics that we explored include goal setting, performance management, developing competitive job descriptions, interviewing objectively and motivating teams. The participating teams were very excited and engaged in the discussions…
New partners in Sistema.bio Read more >>

New partners in Sistema.bio

During Q3 new investors join Sistema.bio Hivos-Triodos Fund, Alpha Mundi and  Dila Capital each confirmed investment in Sistema.bio, the leading, full-service, international supplier of biogas technology to smallholder farmers. Sistema.bio is part of the Bcorporation founding class in Kenya Q4 was definitely a season full of celebrations. We couldn’t hide the excitement on being recognized by the Bcorporation as part of the founding class of the Kenyan BCorps. A recognition resulting from the fact that our products and services not…
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