Kenya - Business creation project

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Keges Urban Agriventure provides city residents with innovative, sustainable urban farming solutions, including modular kits, smart irrigation, data analytics, and expert guidance, enabling them to grow fresh vegetables in confined spaces.

01.01 Décrivez votre projet en détail

Keges Urban Agriventure offers a comprehensive urban farming solution for city residents. We provide modular kits designed for confined spaces, which include smart irrigation systems, data analytics, and eco-friendly materials. Our companion mobile app offers expert guidance, tracking, and data analytics to optimize yield and ensure sustainability. The aim is to empower urban dwellers to grow their own fresh vegetables, reduce their carbon footprint, and promote a healthier lifestyle.

01.02 Quel est le problème principal que vous essayez de résoudre ?

Urban residents face challenges in accessing fresh, homegrown vegetables due to limited space and lack of knowledge on sustainable farming practices. This leads to dependency on store-bought produce, which is often less fresh and environmentally taxing. Keges Urban Agriventure addresses these issues by providing a turnkey solution that makes urban farming accessible, efficient, and eco-friendly, enabling residents to grow their own vegetables even in confined spaces.

01.03 Dites-nous quels sont les principaux avantages et/ou bénéfices de l'utilisation du produit/service que vous souhaitez fournir par votre projet (au moins 3).

Space Efficiency: Our modular kits are designed to fit into small, urban spaces, making it possible for city dwellers to grow their own vegetables at home. Sustainability: Using eco-friendly materials and smart irrigation systems, our solution minimizes water usage and environmental impact. Expert Guidance: Our companion mobile app provides users with data analytics, tracking, and expert advice, ensuring optimal growth and yield. Real-time analytics:customers using our product will be able to track real-time and regulate crop conditions example temperature, light and water

01.04 Veuillez décrire précisément à qui s'adressera le produit/service de votre projet. Quels sont les bénéficiaires visés ?

Our project targets urban residents who want to grow their own fresh vegetables but lack the space and knowledge to do so. This includes apartment dwellers, people with small balconies or rooftops, and eco-conscious individuals looking to reduce their carbon footprint. Additionally, we aim to serve communities interested in sustainable living and local food production, contributing to urban sustainability and food security.

01.05 Quand avez-vous commencé à travailler sur votre projet ?

01/01/2024

01.06 Combien y a-t-il de propriétaires sur votre projet en plus de vous ?

1

01.07 Parmi les autres propriétaires, combien sont des femmes ?

1

01.08 Veuillez décrire le profil des autres propriétaires de votre projet (compétences, expérience, etc.).

Diana Karan - Co-Founder and Sustainability Lead Diana Karan, co-founder of keges Urban Agriventure, holds a degree in Marine Biology and Fisheries and a master's in Fisheries. Currently a researcher, Diana has a strong background in ecological research, data analysis, and environmental management. Her expertise in sustainability and resource management is crucial for developing eco-friendly urban farming solutions. Diana's unique perspective on optimizing growing conditions in confined urban spaces and her commitment to promoting green practices align perfectly with keges's mission. Her role ensures our products are effective, sustainable and beneficial for urban farmers.

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01.10 Quel est le secteur d'activité qui décrit le mieux votre projet ?

l) Agriculture

02.01.01 Mon projet contribue à l'objectif 'Pas de pauvreté'

7 - Tout à fait d'accord

02.01.02 Justification de la contribution de mon projet

My project aims to target youth who are most affected with employment, we target to create job opportunities in various sectors that would directly help in offering them an opportunity to find a way to earn a living effectively help their household directly fighting and alleviating the burden of poverty the arears we aim to create majority of jobs are in the manufacturing of our bio degrable and eco friendly farming kits,installation and delivery as well as training and consultancy this are the jobs we feel would greatly be filled by youth and directly help them earn a living effectively combating poverty.

02.02.01 Mon projet contribue à l'objectif 'Faim Zéro'

1 - Pas du tout d'accord

02.02.02 Justification de la contribution de mon projet

Our project helps urban dwellers directly grow their own produce effectively eliminating the middleman and on the other hand guaranteeing that our clients save money,by growing their own food hunger is effectively eliminated especially with hard economic times most household go hungry by with this initiative hunger is eliminated as food will always be guaranteed and extra surplus can be exchanged for different foodstuff in our client community with growers looking to barter their produce with different variety.

02.03.01 Mon projet contribue à l'objectif 'Bonne Santé et Bien Être'

7 - Tout à fait d'accord

02.03.02 Justification de la contribution de mon projet

The biggest problem with buying food in cities is ethics as most vendors follow unhealthy practices when preparing and growing the ffoodstuff, we envision a healthier approach to growing food where the consumer is directly in charge of the food they grow and consume, from knowing exactly what the crops are fed Interms of nutrients to knowing the conditions that they are grown under with our smart app, directly playing an influence in ensuring healthy practices and fostering wellbeing with good health.

02.04.01 Mon projet contribue à l'objectif 'Éducaiton de Qualité'

7 - Tout à fait d'accord

02.04.02 Justification de la contribution de mon projet

With our main approach being creating awareness to healthy plant growth practices we aim to provide quality education and training on this equipping our clients with the best possible teaching skills and information to ensure that their journey to self grow their own produce is successful and sustainable,

02.05.01 Mon projet contribue à l'objectif 'Égalité entre les Sexes'

7 - Tout à fait d'accord

02.05.02 Justification de la contribution de mon projet

We are targeting equality in our organization,from the topmost position in our company being held by our co-founder Diana who is a lady,and her vision and goal is to ensure that we reach a percentage of 60% in our female staff which would greatly improve our gender equality goals and ensure that women are integrated in every critical sector of our organization from manufacturing to leadership.

02.06.01 Mon projet contribue à l'objectif 'Eau Propre et Assainissement'

6

02.06.02 Justification de la contribution de mon projet

Through our design vertical aquaponic towers, we have taken steps to ensure that all and every drop of water is utilized with surplus being rotated across the platform thereby saving water ensuring sanitation of the highest order with our portable and adjustable system effectively saving wastage of water and ensuring that the amount being utilized is clean and hygienic.

02.07.01 Mon projet contribue à l'objectif 'Énergie Propre et Abordable'

1 - Pas du tout d'accord

02.07.02 Justification de la contribution de mon projet

With our vertical aquaponic towers trying to minimize space but still guaranteeing the maximum yield of fresh produce, we effectively limit the wastage of energy and saving on space ensuring it is not only affordable but also beneficial to the client.

02.08.01 Mon projet contribue à l'objectif 'Travail Décent et Croissance Économique'

7 - Tout à fait d'accord

02.08.02 Justification de la contribution de mon projet

Our startup is targeting to create more than 1600 jobs that will directly go to helping jobless youth find purpose and also a chance to economically help themselves better their conditions from going to school to establishing themselves, some of the roles we are targeting to create most opportunities on are in manufacturing of our vertical aquaponic tower systems and plant substrates and seedling,and in trainings of our clients.

02.09.01 Mon projet contribue à l'objectif 'Industrie, Innovaiton et Infrastructure'

6

02.09.02 Justification de la contribution de mon projet

We are hoping to revolutionize the agriculture space by bringing the skills and expertise for urban dwellers to grow their own fresh produce, we are target to revolutionize the sector by our introduction of the smart app to both track the process and enable our clients control and regulate the process example light and water and nutrient dispersal, our material are bio degrable and eco friendly a first in the industry and guarantee to ensure that the experience is taken well.

02.10.01 Mon projet contribue à l'objectif 'Réduction des Inégalités'

5

02.10.02 Justification de la contribution de mon projet

Our vision is to go global targeting every city with an end goal of creating a close knit community, that will not only be engaging sharing best practices and exchanging ideas effectively bridging the gap of separation between people and boundaries which would serve to reduce inequality in most.

02.11.01 Mon projet contribue à l'objectif 'Villes et Communautés Durables'

7 - Tout à fait d'accord

02.11.02 Justification de la contribution de mon projet

Our startup main goal is sustainability in cities we hope to tackle this by reducing organic waste creating and promoting a sustainable and eco friendly practice to growing produce ensuring minimal loss and waste from water to waste while ensuring maximum yield per harvest.

02.12.01 Mon projet contribue à l'objectif 'Consommation et Production Responsable'

6

02.12.02 Justification de la contribution de mon projet

Our venture encourages responsible consumption and production by reducing the need of large scale farming that often huge percentages end up being spoilt or perishing before reaching the consumer, we aim to tackle this by our innovative venture of having different packages based on different needs of our clients,this on one hand eliminates wastage saves resources and encourages responsible production and consumption by one growing what they need and can consume,with the option of sharing or exchanging the surplus to other members in the platform group.

02.13.01 Mon projet contribue à l'objectif 'Luttle contre les Changements Climatiques'

1 - Pas du tout d'accord

02.13.02 Justification de la contribution de mon projet

Our goal as a startup is try and reduce carbon footprints in household contributing to the overall climate action plan by ensuring that building and residents adopt our services they will also be committing to growing plants alongside our towers that will be going a step further in helping recycle air pollution in cities and building helping create sustainability and promote clean air.

02.14.01 Mon projet contribue à l'objectif 'Vie Sous-Marine'

1 - Pas du tout d'accord

02.14.02 Justification de la contribution de mon projet

Currently our project does not directly or indirectly touch on or impact life under water but we envision in the future adopting a section that directly integrates farming and growing fish sustainably and in a way that recycles both products from our vertical farms to the fish example recycling the water for plants to use the fish droppings in it as fertilizer

02.15.01 Mon projetp contribue à l'objectif 'Vie Terrestre'

7 - Tout à fait d'accord

02.15.02 Justification de la contribution de mon projet

By encouraging indoor vertical farms our project is playing a huge role in reducing competition for space drastically reducing the need for clearing large scale tracts of land mostly forested and inhabited by animals which is often not productive as the yield is often unpredictable and resources wasted or used in excess rather than adopting our approach which guarantees stable yields and ensures minimum resource utilization.

02.16.01 Mon projet contribue à l'objectif 'Paix, Justice et Institutions Efficaces'

3

02.16.02 Justification de la contribution de mon projet

Our project doesn't directly touch on social reforms like peace and justice or strong institutions, but we believe that access to food is usually directly a factor in establishing peace and justice we believe that the more we help household better be able to grow and access food they grow themselves most conflicts are reduced we however hope to play a part in the future to ensure strong institutions especially agricultural.

02.17.01 Mon projet contribue à l'objectif 'Parteneriats pour la Réalisation des Objectifs'

7 - Tout à fait d'accord

02.17.02 Justification de la contribution de mon projet

To achieve the most impact we believe strategic partnerships are crucial to increase reach and influence some of the steps we are currently taking are engaging with agricultural stakeholders and government to see ways we would better be able to properly provide value and increase outreach and awareness with projects that would guarantee better practices in food production and consumption.

05.01 Il existe un grand nombre de clients qui utilisent déjà un produit/service très similaire à celui que nous envisageons de créer.

7 - Tout à fait d'accord

05.02 Le produit/service que nous voulons créer représente un type de produit/service entièrement nouveau

7 - Tout à fait d'accord

05.03 Le produit/service que nous voulons créer pourrait être décrit comme une nouvelle technologie

4

05.04 Le produit/service que nous voulons créer est une amélioration d'un produit ou d'un service existant

7 - Tout à fait d'accord

05.05 Le produit/service que nous voulons créer pourrait être décrit comme une extension d'une gamme de produits ou de services

6

05.06 Le produit/service que nous voulons créer répond à une demande ou à un besoin qui n'a pas été satisfait par d'autres produits/services.

7 - Tout à fait d'accord

05.07 Le produit/service que nous voulons créer est une nouvelle version d'un ancien produit/service

7 - Tout à fait d'accord

05.08 Justification de mon projet

Our product is unique in that we are more centred on sustainability evidenced in our approach in using bio degrable and eco friendly materials for our kits, what sets us apart is our mobile app that offers real time analytic tracking this includes light intensity control as well as water regulation, finally our expertise consulting services that offer our clients the best education resources,material and services to ensure firm grasp effectively ensuring the best possible chance of successful returns on their investment.

05.09 Qui sont vos principaux potentiels concurrents et qu'est-ce qui vous différencie d'eux ?

keges competitors in urban farming include Urban Cultivator, AeroGarden, and SproutsIO. However, we stands out with our modular design, smart irrigation system, and sustainable materials, as well as providing our customers with a comprehensive mobile app for monitoring and guidance, along with consulting services and community engagement. we aim to offer a superior customer experience and empower urban dwellers to grow fresh produce sustainably in confined spaces.

10.06 Menez-vous des actions au sein de votre communauté pour promouvoir le rôle des femmes entrepreneurs ?

Yes, Keges Urban Agriventure is committed to promoting female entrepreneurship within our community, we have initiated several actions to support and inspire women: 1. Mentorship Programs: Pairing aspiring female entrepreneurs with experienced women leaders for guidance and support. 2. Workshops and Training: Hosting sessions on urban farming, business management, and digital marketing to empower women with essential skills. 3. Networking Events: Organizing events to connect female entrepreneurs with industry experts and potential investors. 4. Partnerships: Collaborating with women's organizations to provide additional resources and funding opportunities. 5. Highlighting Success Stories: Celebrating female achievements through our marketing channels to inspire others. These initiatives aim to create an inclusive environment where women can thrive and lead in urban agriculture.