Farmforce

Farmforce is a cloud-based mobile platform that focuses on the agricultural “last mile” and specifically the management of outgrower schemes involving rural small holders in the developing world. Farmforce manages the production process, provides real-time traceability from the smallholder farmer’s field, and monitors compliance with food safety and sustainability standards such as Global GAP. Additionally, Farmforce supports other aspects of outgrower management, such as loans, produce purchases (also using mobile payments), management of decentralized warehouses, SMS communication with farmers and staff, and monitoring of farmer trainings. Any aggregator working with smallholder farmers can use Farmforce. The potential clients include cooperatives, farmer business organizations, exporters, and processors.

The Farmforce platform is an initiative of the Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture and is backed by the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs of Switzerland. The technical platform is developed by a global team headquartered in Switzerland with an implementation and support team in Kenya.

Website: http://www.farmforce.com/

Countries: Kenya