AfriScout: A GC Social Enterprise
www.globalcommunities.orgAfriScout was established in 2017 to offer solutions to climate change and conventional livestock farming’s ecological and economic degradation and its negative impacts on pastoralists. Looking for a more sustainable answer to a neglected food system and misguided economic policies, two innovators from Global Communities formed AfriScout to leverage technology for the next generation of pastoral livestock farming. AfriScout enables more sustainable grazing practices with localized grazing insights using satellite imagery and crowd-sourced indigenous knowledge. AfriScout has garnered support from Google, USAID, UBS, and others. It has also received significant media attention from outlets like Reuters, Bloomberg, and Huffington Post. It has been featured on Voice of America and was the lead segment on Al Jazeera’s award-winning Earthrise series AfriScout was a Classy Award winner for innovative, ground-breaking social impact programs, a Social Tech Guide Nominee Trust 100, and one of Ventures Africa’s “10 African Tech for Good Startups to Watch in 2017”.
Read moreAfriScout was established in 2017 to offer solutions to climate change and conventional livestock farming’s ecological and economic degradation and its negative impacts on pastoralists. Looking for a more sustainable answer to a neglected food system and misguided economic policies, two innovators from Global Communities formed AfriScout to leverage technology for the next generation of pastoral livestock farming. AfriScout enables more sustainable grazing practices with localized grazing insights using satellite imagery and crowd-sourced indigenous knowledge. AfriScout has garnered support from Google, USAID, UBS, and others. It has also received significant media attention from outlets like Reuters, Bloomberg, and Huffington Post. It has been featured on Voice of America and was the lead segment on Al Jazeera’s award-winning Earthrise series AfriScout was a Classy Award winner for innovative, ground-breaking social impact programs, a Social Tech Guide Nominee Trust 100, and one of Ventures Africa’s “10 African Tech for Good Startups to Watch in 2017”.
Read moreEmployees statistics
View all employeesPotential Decision Makers
Co - Founder and Managing Director
Email ****** @****.comPhone (***) ****-****Global Managing Director
Email ****** @****.comPhone (***) ****-****
Technologies
(61)