By Alexander Eaton Sistema.bio has received the 2019 Ashden Clean Cooking Award, recognizing our work to bring clean energy to farmers in Latin America, Africa and India. With over 7,000 farms around the world using our biogas technology to turn waste to energy, our scale, team and technology set us apart from the other clean cooking alternatives. This is an
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
On February 15, the Ashden Awards announced us as part of the longlist for this year’s edition. We are now finalists in the category “Clean Cooking”. This list showed many organizations that are making a difference through sustainable energy projects. We’re part of the movement that aims to change the world. The Ashden team made a two-day field visit to
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
In February, we had two Salesforce–Taro module launches: new simplified sales, loan and tech forms; and an inventory management solution. Our IT Team continues to improve our systems, the simplified forms were re-designed to collect high-quality data relevant to our work so we can improve our users’ satisfaction. Also, the new inventory management solution has allowed us to have access
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
