About Us
Fair Planet is an international non-profit dedicated to empowering smallholder farmers in Africa to exit the cycle of poverty.
OUR VISION
People in Africa are trapped in a vicious cycle of poverty and hunger. Fair Planet seeks to provide them with food security and economic opportunities, by making high-quality vegetable seeds, suitable to local conditions, accessible and affordable to local farmers. We bridge the current gap between existing high quality seed varieties developed by leading seed companies and transfer technologies and know how to smallholder farmers in Africa.
Our MISSION
Fair Planet's mission is to increase food security and provide new economic opportunities for the millions stuck in poverty. We are engaged in a unique and long-term technology transfer process - on the one hand, we are facilitating access of smallholder farmers to seed of the highest-quality vegetable varieties suitable for their need, and on the other hand, we are training the farmers to use these seeds with minimal changes to their traditional production.
Our solution
THE PROBLEM
Low Quality Seeds
Local seed varieties are highly susceptible to pests and diseases and the crops have very short shelf life.
Low Crop Yields
Average yield of tomato crop produced from local seeds is 7,670 Kg / Ha, about 20% of the yield achieved when using high quality seed varieties.
Malnutrition & Poverty
Daily income for a smallholder farmer is about 1.5$. Their land is used for subsistence farming, Climate change and occasional outbreaks of pests, threatening their survival. Over 7 million people suffer from malnutrition in Ethiopia alone.
THE SOLUTION
High Quality Seeds
Professional high quality seed varieties are resistant to many pests and diseases, the crops are of high quality and long shelf life, minimizing post-harvest losses
High Crop Yields
By using better vegetable seeds, local farmers can increase their yield more than 3 times.
Nutrition & Income
Locally grown, high-quality vegetables boost smallholder farmers' crop yields and produce quality.
By cultivating vegetables on 0.1 Ha, farmers raise their household income by over 50% annually, while supplying the local community with nutritious produce.
