Emeka Nwachinemere
Nacionalidad: Nigeria
Nombre de la Organización: Kitovu Technology
Región de Impacto: Africa
Sobre el Negocio Social: Launched in March 2017 by a group of young people crazy enough to believe they can help Africa feed the world, Kitovu enables smallholder farmers to cut down input costs, increase yields and sales by providing them with precise inputs, personalized soil, crop health insights and market linkages. We developed a digital platform that applies remote sensing and data
science to provide precise inputs, soil and crop health insights, decision support, crop protection advice, and market access to smallholder farmers. Through our platform, we have recommended precise fertilizers and variable application rates and provided plant health and water stress analysis, which has enabled over 7,500 smallholder farmers to cut down their input costs by 30% while increasing their yields by 50% in Nigeria. Kitovu has won multiple National and International Awards for its work supporting smallholder farmers including Total Startupper Awards for Innovation, Nigerian Innovation Award, UN STI Forum Award for Innovation, and World Bank Ideas for Action Award for Innovation.
Sobre el Y&Y Fellow: Nwachinemere Emeka is a goal driven, innovation and technology enthusiast passionate about the transformation of Africa into the global food hub. He is a fellow of the Social Innovation Program, a recipient of the Total Startupper Awards for Innovation and the Nigerian Innovation Awards, both in 2016. The multi-award winning serial entrepreneur is a 2015 Tony Elumelu Entrepreneurship Program Alumni, and was named part of the Africa Price shortlist of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2018. He also won the 2017 World Bank Ideas for Action competition in 2017, placing first out of 743 teams from 118 countries. How the world would be able to feed 9.7 Billion people by 2050 is one question that Nwachinemere is fixated on finding answers to. And he is doing just that through his startup, Kitovu Technology Company, a United Nations STI 2020 winner. Nwachinemere is a graduate of University of Nigeria, Nsukka, where he studied
Mechanical Engineering. He has also received specialized training on Business and Entrepreneurship from Enterprise Development Center, Pan African University, Lagos. He has a dream that one day, extreme poverty and hunger would be eradicated from Africa and the world. He is a writer and public speaker with interests in governance and advocacy.
Emeka Nwachinemere
Nacionalidad: Nigeria
Nombre de la Organización: Kitovu Technology
Región de Impacto: Africa
Sobre el Negocio Social: Launched in March 2017 by a group of young people crazy enough to believe they can help Africa feed the world, Kitovu enables smallholder farmers to cut down input costs, increase yields and sales by providing them with precise inputs, personalized soil, crop health insights and market linkages. We developed a digital platform that applies remote sensing and data
science to provide precise inputs, soil and crop health insights, decision support, crop protection advice, and market access to smallholder farmers. Through our platform, we have recommended precise fertilizers and variable application rates and provided plant health and water stress analysis, which has enabled over 7,500 smallholder farmers to cut down their input costs by 30% while increasing their yields by 50% in Nigeria. Kitovu has won multiple National and International Awards for its work supporting smallholder farmers including Total Startupper Awards for Innovation, Nigerian Innovation Award, UN STI Forum Award for Innovation, and World Bank Ideas for Action Award for Innovation.
Sobre el Y&Y Fellow: Nwachinemere Emeka is a goal driven, innovation and technology enthusiast passionate about the transformation of Africa into the global food hub. He is a fellow of the Social Innovation Program, a recipient of the Total Startupper Awards for Innovation and the Nigerian Innovation Awards, both in 2016. The multi-award winning serial entrepreneur is a 2015 Tony Elumelu Entrepreneurship Program Alumni, and was named part of the Africa Price shortlist of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2018. He also won the 2017 World Bank Ideas for Action competition in 2017, placing first out of 743 teams from 118 countries. How the world would be able to feed 9.7 Billion people by 2050 is one question that Nwachinemere is fixated on finding answers to. And he is doing just that through his startup, Kitovu Technology Company, a United Nations STI 2020 winner. Nwachinemere is a graduate of University of Nigeria, Nsukka, where he studied
Mechanical Engineering. He has also received specialized training on Business and Entrepreneurship from Enterprise Development Center, Pan African University, Lagos. He has a dream that one day, extreme poverty and hunger would be eradicated from Africa and the world. He is a writer and public speaker with interests in governance and advocacy.
