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Farm to Feed is cutting food loss and creating data platform to improve farming outcomes
The startup is currently running a value-addition pilot to explore new revenue streams too and looking to tap the carbon market.
For Kenya, unlike the developed world, , not waste, is the greater problem, with small-scale farmers, who account for 75% of the total agricultural output in the country, facing a myriad of challenges including inadequate market linkages and a failure to meet the cosmetic specifications for their produce. Claire Van Enk, Farm to Feed CEO, co-founded the startup with Anouk Boertien and Zara Benosa in 2021, after pivoting from a non-profit program that provided food to people that lost their income during the Covid lockdown. Van Enk said they have multiple sales channels including its salespersons, the web app and, soon, a WhatsApp chatbot for customers preferring the social commerce route.
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