BANGKOK – The Water and Energy for Food (WE4F) Grand Challenge South and Southeast Asia Regional Hub (S/SEA RIH) announced today the 15 winners of the first S/SEA RIH Call for Innovations. The WE4F Grand Challenge provides technical and financial assistance to companies and organizations that demonstrate scalability of innovations that impact the sectors of water and food, energy and food, or
Atul Mittal Business development director Today’s young dairy farmers are developing innovative ways to revolutionize the entire milk value chain. They are at the forefront of advancing cattle care, increasing crop yields, reducing waste, improving market access, developing novel technologies, and increasing sustainable farming practices across the country. These small and medium dairy farmers come from diverse backgrounds, with unique
By Purnima Jha & Elena Coll Since 2017, we’ve had the support of Shell Foundation in the process of establishing our teams and operations in Kenya and India, as well as in the research and development of productive appliances for our users. On top of that, Shell Foundation has been a significant contributor to the global research on the impact
Wilfrida Macharia Sistema.bio People Coordinator | Kenya It’s a Saturday and this is probably the sixth attempt at writing this article. Finally at 9:43am I got inspired and figured out what I wanted to write. Like most of us, I thought 2020 was going to be my year & the pressure of job searching was derailed when the pandemic struck.
Piyush Sohani Sistema.bio India Country Director Changing perceptions about biogas technology in rural populations Sistema.bio works with smallholder farmers across more than 30 countries globally. We started our work in India in 2018 intending to create value from waste in the lives of farmers across the country. Within two years, we have impacted over 50,000 people across the country and
Highest efficiency at our India factory We have just crossed one of our bigger milestones as a global company: opening our second factory in Pune, India. The factory began full-time operations in December, and the wonderful team has done nothing but surprise us since! Some of their biggest achievements include: Dispatching a whopping total of 1,000 digesters in February, only
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 gazing
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 my
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 one
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
