Global Resilience Partnership Shortlists Zowasel for the RAIN Round II Challenge.
The Global Resilience Partnership has selected Zowasel for its 2024 Resilient Agriculture Innovations for Nature (RAIN) Challenge. RAIN aims to convert seed-level innovative agricultural ideas that are meeting resilience needs in East Africa and scale them to sustainable business ideas. The program identifies new innovative agricultural initiatives and provides customized support to maximize each initiative’s potential for impact. The challenge aligns potential funders to these initiatives and drives attention to the urgent need for agricultural systems transformation.
The Resilient Agriculture Innovations for Nature (RAIN Round 2) program will take place in Kenya between June and September 2024, providing mentorship and supporting the Zowasel East African team. As a crucial part of the implementation process, the Global Resilience Partnership will support Zowasel’s efforts to advance resilience agriculture by scaling on-the-ground innovation, generating and sharing knowledge, and shaping policy for sustainable, inclusive development in an increasingly unpredictable world.
Zowasel’s MRV technology, which qualified for stage two of the RAIN Challenge, holds the potential to revolutionize corporate compliance, fostering a hopeful future for sustainable agriculture. The company’s unwavering commitment to regenerative agriculture drives the transition from a carbon source to a carbon sink through transparent measurement, reporting, and verification. The technology provides a platform to track, measure, and report carbon footprint across values to meet voluntary and regulatory compliance. More importantly, it rewards smallholder farmers through carbon incentives, driving the transition to sustainable agriculture. This technology promises a brighter future for sustainable agriculture, instilling optimism in the industry and its stakeholders.
Vyone Ming’ate, the Country Director of Zowasel Kenya, highlighted the company’s unwavering dedication to providing innovative solutions in a statement, “At Zowasel, we are committed to building resilience for smallholder farmers and other value chain actors through our unique approach. We carefully embed these solutions in the value chains, from production to markets. Our partnership with the GRP is a testament to our capabilities. We believe it will lead to additional leveraging for synergies that will benefit not just smallholder farmers but other value chain actors and the ecosystem as a whole”.Ming’ate further added that “Zowasel will continue to use its Digital Monitoring, Reporting, and Verification (MRV) technology to provide insights and decisions for efficient tracking and verification to promote regenerative Agriculture, biodiversity and traceability for resilient and low-carbon agriculture supply chains.”
The Zowasel East African team, deeply committed to the project’s success, is expected to start the project in selected value chains across Kenya and Tanzania. Their dedication and expertise will be instrumental in achieving the impact articulated in the Theory of change and associated logical frameworks, providing reassurance to all stakeholders.
For further information, please contact: Partners@zowasel.com
