Smart Farmer Africa Limited - Nairobi, Kenya

Smart Farmer Africa Limited is a social enterprise duly registered under the Kenyan Registrar of Companies.

We pride ourselves in being the market leader in generating, managing and disseminating agriculture content for the agriculture stakeholder and industry in Kenya that includes the farmer, the manufacturer, the service provider, the investor, the innovator and the policy maker.

With over 7 years of providing real life changing content to especially farmers, Smart Farmer Africa Limited, has now diversified into a fully-fledged Media Company after hosting the first-ever East Africa Digital Farmers Conference and Exhibition in partnership with the Kenya Agricultural Research and Livestock Organization (KALRO).

We provide agricultural content through our media network that  

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consist of magazines, Smart Farmer TV, and an interactive online presence. We also host agricultural events through our Events Division.

VISION

To be the African market leader in collating, managing and disseminating rich, current, relevant and up-to-date agricultural information that will define policy and the upward trend of the industry; the agent that will see a positive change of mindsets towards agriculture; that will lead to an economically and socially empowered farmer; and a highly-developed agricultural sector on the continent.

OUR VISION

Our vision is to be the lead media in African Agriculture, to be most known for:

Impacting transformational change in the sector; to be an information power house and resource on the African continent to reckon with in matters agriculture;
Contributing to the growth of agriculture into a highly-developed state, resulting in better living standards for the entire value chain, and ultimately becoming the change agent that will help eradicate hunger and starvation from our African continent.

MISSION

To collate, manage and disseminate rich, current, relevant and up to date agricultural information for the agriculture sector that includes the small, middle and large scale farmer, manufacturers, service providers and policy makers in Kenya and beyond.

CORE PURPOSE

We exist to impact positive economic and societal change through provision of impactful agricultural information that is both practical and educative.

CORE IDEOLOGY & VALUES

We believe that whatever we do has to:

Inspire
Inform
Innovate

GOALS

To inform, educate and inspire farmers and stakeholders with information and knowledge on best farming practices and farm management skills for maximum production and greater exposure in agribusiness
To provide linkages to markets, finance, insurance, inputs and stakeholders in the industry
Through inspired teamwork and a positive working environment, we are determined to change the negative perceptions the society holds about agriculture and eventually inspire the youth and other Kenyans to take Agriculture to the next Agribusiness level

OUR STRATEGY

To achieve our set goals and objectives and attain our Vision we carry out our business through various channels:

Smart Farmer Africa Media Division

The media division headed by a media manager will collate and distribute agriculture content through:

a. Smart Farmer Magazine

This is the pioneer and preferred print media for the agriculture industry in Kenya. It is target specific to the sector; informative and educative; an authority on farmer’s issues and their voice, and a means through which stakeholders disseminate sector information.

Some of the stakeholders the publication has worked with include companies such as John Deere Pty; Standbic Bank, FMD East Africa, Evonix East Africa; Bidco Land o’ Lakes, Koppert International among others.

The magazine has received international and local recognition which include:

Finalist Media of the Year, Diageo African Business 2012 awards
Africa Enterprise Challenge Fund (AECF) 2015 winner

Smart Farmer Africa Events Division

The Events division headed by an Events Manager organizes and participates in high quality agriculture events with the aim of connecting farmers with markets and quality farmer information and vice versa with the ultimate brief of defining how farmers interact and access tools for prosperity for the businesses.

Our first event, the successful East Africa Digital Farmers Conference and Exhibition (EADFC) was able to pull together major corporate sponsors who included Telkom Kenya, Safaricom, the Standard Media Group as the Media Partner, DELL Technologies among others, 1000+ exhibition delegates, 400+ paid up conference delegates from 7 African and 5 European countries, representatives from United Nation and world food and agriculture bodies such as FAO, Agra, ACRE Africa, OCP Africa, ICRISAT, ILRI, IITA, ICRAF among others.

Smart Farmer Africa Logistics Division

The Logistics Division headed by a Logistics and Policy Manager will manage the day to day data collection and management of content generated by the various collecting avenues and condenses that information for the profitable use of all agricultural stakeholders in Kenya and abroad

Inspire | Inform | Innovate