The Client
The Basel Agency for Sustainable Energy (BASE) is a non profit organization who develops innovative, actionable financial strategies and market-driven solutions to unlock investment in climate change solutions.
The project
Base detected that smallholder farmers in developing countries are often unaware of the technical aspects of how to better preserve their produce. They also might have difficulty in understanding the complex market dynamics underlying crop prices. As a result, it is hard for them to leverage information to their advantage which results in loss of income and crop wastage.
Jointly with Empa (the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology) BASE wanted to develop an open access, data science-based mobile application to provide real time instructions to smallholder farmers in India on how to control storage products to minimise food loss and maximise market value.
BASE website: https://energy-base.org
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