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.
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.
66%
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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.
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.
- 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.
Development Agencies
Donors, funders, NGOs exploring scalable and sustainable solutions.
Governments
Progressive leaders seeking transformative solutions.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Our Projects
We have delivered innovative solutions for multiple sectors and themes. Can’t see what you are looking here?
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Our Partners
Insights
British Council and Pioneers Post have done an immersive story – Kuza: a Revolution in rural businesses offering Fresh Solutions for Africa’s jobs challenge.
BTalks, a Podcast with Leen Zevenbergen, founder of B Lab Europe on how Kuza is impacting lives of millions across the African continent.
FeedtheFuture, an USAID initiative, featured a global story on how Kuza is creating the next generation of Youth Agripreneurs with its Innovation.
Kuza was recognised for its outstanding performance in the capacity development for Digital Platform Operators by D4Ag, a GiZ initiative.
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.
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.
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.
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 & prosperity.
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.
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 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.
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.
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