Revolutionizing Rural Businesses

We are creating opportunities for youth, women and small business owners to learn, connect and grow through
entrepreneurship.

Global Goals to Local Impact

We are co-creating practical solutions that solve local problems with a global mindset.

Working closely with public, private and development agencies, we have co-created programs that have impacted careers and lives of over 6,000,000 young women and men, created positive economic growth of 253,000 small businesses and created 155,000 new jobs to-date across Africa and Asia.

Our work is impacting 10 UN Sustainable Development Goals.

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An independent study done on Kuza farmers in 2022 by the World Bank Kenya and AgriFin reported that 97% of farmers experienced an improvement in their overall quality of life because of Kuza.

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We are transforming smallholder farmers from subsistence to commercial farming.

Our Rural Entrepreneur Development Incubators (REDI) have produced 5,000 youth Agripreneurs who are providing bundled services to 750,000+ smallholder farmers across Africa and Asia.

“I have hired people who are further creating jobs for other unemployed people. I make a good living for myself and am financially self-sufficient.”
Female, 57
"The increase in my yield has made me a content farmer. I’m feeling good enough to even expand the area I farm.”
Male, 30
“My earnings have improved and it is helping me pay my children’s school fees.”
Female, 44
“My dairy and crop production has increased and I am able to earn good money from the sale of my harvest.”
Female, 27
“My crop production increased which enabled me to get enough food to feed my family and reduce expenditure on buying food.”
Male, 40
“I now plant with a string so that I can space properly. This makes my production very high. Also, the farm looks organized.”
Male, 37
“We learnt about hybrid seeds which gave us very impressive yields of tomatoes which are very easy to sell.”
Male, 48
“My crop yield has improved because I am applying good fertilizer and pesticides appropriately.”
Female, 43
“I have gained a lot of knowledge on potato farming because of Kuza. Through soil testing, we can know the fertilizer to use which then improved our farming.”
Female, 47
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We are leading a global movement of using business as a force for good.

As a certified BCorporation, Kuza meets the rigorous standards of performance, transparency, and accountability. In 2022 we earned an overall B Impact score of 137.2. Our 2018 score was 104.2.

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137.2
  • 137.2 Overall B Impact Score
  • 80 Qualifies for B Corp Certification
  • 50.9 Median Score for Ordinary Businesses

Best for the World: Every year, B Lab recognizes B Corps that have achieved the highest verified scores. Kuza won Best For The World: Customers 2022, 2021, 2019

Who we serve

Corporations

Forward-thinking companies looking to use business as a force for good.

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Development Agencies

Donors, funders, NGOs exploring scalable and sustainable solutions.

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Governments

Progressive leaders seeking transformative solutions.

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Multi-facet digital platform Kuza One from Kenya educates smallholder farmers in Africa & Asia concerning environmental Agriculture & Entrepreneurship. It could be a winner in education, could be a winner in many categories. It is a real winner.
Dr. Peter A Bruck Chairman, World Summit Awards
Kuza’s approach, leadership commitment and attitude to problem-solving is refreshing. The partnership with Kuza is a true testimony of collaborative partnership and shared value proposition.
Dr. Baskar ReddyExecutive Director, Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture, India
We are happy to see the Agripreneur model of Kuza evolving into a One stop service delivery model led by digitally empowered extension worker who is providing extension services, inputs, market linkages and credit.
Vinay VutukuruSenior Agriculture Economist, The World Bank
Kuza’s passionate and committed team listen and respond to the program needs to deliver tailor-made solutions. We would strongly recommend using Kuza’s micro learning platform for it's professional design and practical functionality.
Amy ChingProgram Officer, idh, Utrecht, The Netherlands
I wish to thank the private sector and the UN organizations. The Maisha digital platform powered by Kuza Biashara has already reached 3 million young people with HIV education, mentorship and getting 1 million young people get their HIV status tested.
His Excellency Uhuru KenyattaPast President of Kenya
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How we work

Digital learning content built by listening.

By actively listening to the users, we curated a massive library of bite sized HD video skills content on entrepreneurship, business, soft, life skills in local languages. In Agriculture, we have digitized good agricultural practices, climate smart technologies, regenerative agriculture practices for 40+ food crops, horticulture crops and livestock. 

We are creating universal learning opportunities for all, leaving no one behind.

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Democratization of access.

Designed for extreme rural conditions of Africa and Asia, our self powered portable digital kits create immersive learning experiences in the most remotest parts of the world without the need for digital literacy and internet

Our Youth Agripreneurs act as the last-mile human user interface providing bundled solutions to their farmers like crop  advisory / information services, access to quality inputs, credit, and markets at the farmgate.

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Online. Offline. Bottomline.

Our deep understanding of the needs and challenges of the rural low-income communities inspired us to to stretch our imagination to design a suite of digital solutions.  

We are giving the power to the users to learn on demand, connect to the quality service delivery partners at their farm gate and grow by improving their productivity, income and overall quality of life. 

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OneNetwork® map showing the connections between the ecosystem actors

4P Ecosystem model.​

We are driving a systems change by convening, catalyzing, and co-creating sustainable solutions with public, philanthropy, and private sector partners through a multi-sided digital platform, OneNetwork. 

We are crowding in all the ecosystem actors and AgTech players to create standards for performance, transparency, and  accountable  relationships keeping farmers’ interest at the core. 

We are witnessing an exponential growth in the way trusted relationships are getting built at the grassroots level leading to network effect.

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Our Partners

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Kuza and UN World Food Program (WFP) signed a long-term agreement to incubate 3,600 Farmer Service Centers (Agripreneurs) in Kenya & Rwanda.
Kuza and Heifer have partnered to incubate and support youth Agripreneurs as Digital Agriculture Champions (DAC) to support small farmers across11 African countries.
The World Bank’s One Million Farmer Platform adopted Kuza’s youth Agripreneur model for its Disruptive Agricultural Technologies (DAT) initiative in Kenya with 27 county governments.
Kuza and Yara co- created a program for Africa & Asia to build capacities of agro dealers and farmers. India and Kenya rolled out 1,000 MSMEs (Agripreneurs) in 2022.
B Lab honored Kuza as the top-performing Certified B Corp globally for our impact in serving customers earning US$ 2-4 per day.
The World Economic Forum featured a case study on Kuza as part of its study on Future Readiness of SMEs: Mobilizing the SME sector to drive widespread Sustainability & Prosperity.
Adoption of Kuza’s rural advisory and digital extension model was discussed at the Ethiopia Digital Agriculture Extension and Advisory Services roadmap conference.
Kuza’s innovation was showcased at the Mercy Corps Agrifin global annual learning event.
B Lab honored Kuza as the top-performing Certified B Corp globally for our impact in serving customers earning US$ 2-4 per day.
The World Economic Forum featured a case study on Kuza as part of its study on Future Readiness of SMEs: Mobilizing the SME sector to drive widespread Sustainability & Prosperity.
Adoption of Kuza’s rural advisory and digital extension model was discussed at the Ethiopia Digital Agriculture Extension and Advisory Services roadmap conference.
Kuza’s innovation was showcased at the Mercy Corps Agrifin global annual learning event.
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Insights

The World Bank’s One Million Farmer Platform adopted Kuza’s youth Agripreneur model for it’s Disruptive Agricultural Technologies (DAT) initiative in Kenya.

Kuza and UN World Food Program signed a long-term agreement to incubate farmer service centers (Agripreneurs) in Kenya and Rwanda.

Kuza and Heifer have partnered to incubate and support youth Agripreneurs as Digital Agriculture Champions (DAC) to support small farmers across 11 African countries. 

Kuza and Yara co-created a program for Africa and Asia to build capacities of agro dealers and farmers. India and Kenya rolled out 1,000 MSMEs (Agripreneurs) in 2022.

The World Economic Forum featured a case study on Kuza as part of it’s study on Future Readiness of SMEs: Mobilizing the SME sector to drive widespread sustainability & prosperit

FeedtheFuture, an USAID initiative, featured a global story on how Kuza is creating the next generation of Youth Agripreneurs with its Innovation.

Pearson’s Q&A series did a spotlight Game-changing startup: Kuza. This exclusive interview featured the problem Kuza is solving for the society, the inspiration behind the same and its impact.
Kuza joined the elite group of the world’s most impactful growth-stage enterprises who are at the forefront of disrupting the very nature of work by creating opportunities for underserved youth
British Council and Pioneers Post have done an immersive story –  Kuza: a Revolution in rural businesses offering Fresh Solutions for Africa’s jobs challenge.
On the opening plenary session – Ingredients for Innovation: the emerging digital agriculture revolution in Kenya, Kuza presented it’s Ecosystem strategy to support  sustainable rural communities at scale.
Kuza participated in the expert roundtable on partnership initiatives for digital ecosystem development for inclusive rural and agrifood systems transformation of UN FAO 1,000 digital village initiative.
Kuza is one of the ten teams selected from 793 applicants from 95 countries by UN WFP Innovation Challenge for its bold solutions to end hunger by 2030. 
Kuza won the coveted Global Champion award under the Environment & Green Energy category for being one of the World’s best Digital Content Solution provider driving social impact & change through digital innovation globally by the World Summit Awards.
On the opening plenary session – Ingredients for Innovation: the emerging digital agriculture revolution in Kenya, Kuza presented it’s Ecosystem strategy to support  sustainable rural communities at scale.
Kuza founder spoke on Precision agriculture for smallholder farming at the annual Digital Disruption in Agriculture Forum hosted by the World Bank Group.
The World Bank’s Digital Agriculture Series hosted an exclusive global webinar to share the learnings of public, private, UN and youth Agripreneurs’ perspective on how Kuza is transforming the future of agriculture
Kuza was recognised for its outstanding performance  in the capacity development for Digital Platform Operators by D4Ag, a GiZ initiative.
BTalks, a Podcast with Leen Zevenbergen, founder of B Lab Europe on how Kuza is  impacting lives of millions across the African continent
B Lab honored Kuza as the top performing certified B Corp globally for our impact in serving customers earning US$ 2-4 per day for the third consecutive year.
At the ICT for Ag global forum, Kuza demonstrated how it’s solution is bridging the food security gap by crowding in public & private partners for boosting hyper local digital agriculture ecosystems

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