Keeling Curve

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The world’s most important challenges—poverty, food security, and climate change—intersect at smallholder farms around the world. Our project is founded under the idea that smallholder farmers are key players in our social fabric: they take care of the land and produce 70% of the world’s food, yet live trapped in poverty, and threatened by climate change. Agriculture is responsible for a quarter of all greenhouse gas emissions, while climate change threatens global food production. These farmers are the most vulnerable in face of these challenges and often do not have access to technology, education, or financing services to help them overcome them. 
In addition, women on farms are specifically impacted by many of the economic and health problems smallholder farmers face. They oversee many of the domestic and farming activities and they are the most affected when using woodfuel as the main source of household and farm energy. With over 75% of our end-users being women and over 91% of our farmers using woodfuel for some portion of their energy needs prior to getting a biodigester, our innovation has a significant impact on both the time availability and health of women around the world.

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https://sistema.bio/

Mission Statement:

Create value from waste

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