AFRICA'S LARGEST FEDERATED AGRICULTURAL INTELLIGENCE LAYER, BUILT ON FOUR CORE INNOVATIONS.
AFRICA'S LARGEST FEDERATED AGRICULTURAL INTELLIGENCE LAYER, BUILT ON FOUR CORE INNOVATIONS.
The Foundation convenes the institutions that hold Africa’s agricultural data and funds the public institutions and farmer organisations that need trusted intelligence most, so they can use it today and keep using it long after a grant ends.
Builds and runs Africa’s agricultural intelligence infrastructure as a commercial company. Revenue keeps it running, so it does not go dark when a grant ends, the way so many data systems on the continent have.
Brings grant and philanthropic funding into access for ministries without a budget line, statistics offices, cooperatives and local organisations, while each one builds its own way to pay.
Data held across ministries, research bodies and communities becomes usable together, with every source kept in its owner’s hands.
Every insight carries a visible confidence signal, so decision makers know how much weight it can bear.
Every programme ends with the institution paying its own way, never with the lights going off.
Access for a ministry or public agency, integration into its systems and analyst training, while a national budget line is built.
Access for cooperative unions and their members on WhatsApp, USSD, web and mobile, moving over time to member fees and offtaker sponsorship.
Statistics offices and public research bodies federate their data in exchange for institutional access, strengthening the intelligence for everyone.
Bringing ministries, regional bodies and funders around shared data questions, and publishing field notes on building public goods that last.
For a defined programme with a named beneficiary.
It pays OpenTrace Africa a published public interest rate on the beneficiary’s behalf.
With onboarding, training and local delivery partners.
A sustainability plan, signed at the start, moves it to paying its own way.
Food security early warning, national statistics, extension, school feeding and climate adaptation planning.
Bringing intelligence to the people who grow Africa’s food, through the channels they already use.
Public bodies that contribute data to the federation and use the intelligence in return.
Community and national organisations working close to farmers and food systems.
A five member board that brings together African agricultural leadership, philanthropy and the voice of farmers, guided by an advisory committee spanning the domains our intelligence covers.
Foundations, family offices and philanthropists who fund the first programmes and shape how they are designed.
Ministries, statistics offices and regional bodies that put trusted intelligence to work in policy and planning.
Cooperatives, unions and local partners that bring the intelligence to the people who grow Africa’s food.
Researchers and practitioners who join our open learning on building public goods that are owned locally and built to last.
Whether you fund, serve farmers or run a public institution, we would like to hear from you.
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