Graham Day CFO The Conference Discovery | 2016 When you walk off the street into the Hyatt Regency in Merida, Mexico, a wave of gloriously cool air washes over your face. The marbled reception area is an immediate respite from the dusty humidity of the outside world. You cannot help yourself from simply stopping, taking a deep breath and
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
HIMANSHU MISHRA INDIA TECHNICAL DIRECTOR The big picture Let’s start with a big picture – And also with the most fundamental survival tactic of humankind- the ability to find, scavenge, grow, harvest, cook food that helps us survive every day, and keeps our body from running out of energy. All of us as humans on this planet collectively cook more
Working in the social development space, the one thing I think is the most important for a company’s success is to cultivate partnerships with like-minded organisations who are working on the same end goals as your company. Partnering or collaborating has now become essential for social enterprises in order to deliver impact at scale. At Sistema.bio India, we work with
By Mutuma Muriuki, Agroecology Fellow A couple of months ago we shared an article about the effects of applying biofertilizer on cabbage crops. Now we are here to share some information about coffee, that wonderful energizing crop that has been a part of farms around the world for centuries. Coffee is a tropical evergreen shrub, cultivated for its beans. There
2020: Reinventing ways to engage smallholder dairy farmer The past year was very busy for Sistema.bio. Ever since our inception in India, we have been growing in strength and spirit, hence we started the year with moving into a bigger office for our ever growing team. We initiated several new projects, which helped us to collaborate with institutions as well
Living off the land is no easy task —everybody knows this. That is why, 10 years ago, Sistema.bio decided to focus on working with small and medium farmers: it was clear to us that investing in them would be key in the fight for our planet, for food security and a better life for thousands of people. And the results
STEPHANIE ZAYED BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATE Today is World Soil Day, a day that may not always be present in our minds or calendars, but still reminds us of the importance of something so simple, yet so vital for life on our planet. To commemorate this day, I want to share with you some information on what makes this resource
