Connected problems, one answer

2022

Kenya went through one of its worst droughts in decades. Feed prices rose, farms produced less and food security weakened, while tonnes of organic waste were still thrown away every day.

2024

Studying biology at the University of Nairobi, our founder, Abigail Ndekei, came across Black Soldier Fly: larvae that turn organic waste into animal feed and fertiliser. That year she founded Rethink Organic to help farmers cut costs, manage waste and build farms that stand up to a changing climate.

The gap

Farmers trying Black Soldier Fly found it hard to keep the colony at the temperature and humidity it needs, and problems showed only after production had already dropped. So we paired the biology with monitoring: Mkuu-lima, built to make sustainable farming easier to get right, not just easier to start.