This pandemic has affected each of us in a different way. And although rural areas show lower rates of contagion than large cities, the economic impact can be felt everywhere. Faced with calls to stop our activities and stay home, many people have managed to halt our work. But farmers continue reminding us who they work for: “We live off
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
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
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
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
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
