KilimoraAgriKonnekt · Open Source
KilimoraAgriKonnekt · Open Source
AgriKonnekt is Kilimora's open-source, AI-enabled agribusiness platform — climate intelligence, verified farmer identity, market access and sustainability tracking in one interoperable system, built for underserved farming communities across East Africa.
Kenyan smallholder farmers face compounding climate shocks — drought, irregular rainfall, livestock disease and soil degradation — while remaining locked out of reliable markets, climate financing and agricultural intelligence.
Weather, logistics, financing, extension services and market access all run on separate, disconnected tools. Without shared, verifiable data, rural producers stay invisible to insurers, buyers and sustainability programmes — and young people and women farmers are hit hardest, with the least access to financing, productivity tools and formal market networks.
Kilimora built AgriKonnekt to close this infrastructure gap: one climate-resilient, interoperable coordination system for underserved farming communities.
An AI-enabled agribusiness infrastructure platform combining climate intelligence, digital farmer verification, market coordination and sustainability tracking — delivered through low-bandwidth dashboards and SMS built for rural connectivity.
IoT sensors, satellite data and drone-supported diagnostics track crop health, soil conditions, livestock risk and weather exposure in real time.
Verified digital production identities for farmers and cooperatives enable traceability, buyer trust, and access to climate finance and insurance.
Producers connect directly to aggregators and institutional buyers, with logistics optimised to cut post-harvest losses and market inefficiencies.
Publicly exposed, real-time impact data — income, resilience and emissions proxies — measurable by funders, insurers and policymakers alike.
Indicative milestones AgriKonnekt is designed to move over the first 12 months of Innovation Fund support — to be tracked against verified, publicly exposed platform data as required by the Fund.
Targets to be finalised against baseline pilot data and updated quarterly on uif.kilimora.africa once fieldwork begins.
Every gain above compounds into what children in these households need to develop: stable nutrition, uninterrupted schooling, and a home that isn't one drought away from crisis. Stronger farmer incomes are the most direct path UNICEF has into rural child wellbeing in these communities.
AgriKonnekt's public, real-time data layer means this isn't a one-off survey — it's a living measurement system UNICEF and partners can query continuously.
AgriKonnekt is designed as public infrastructure, not a standalone product — aligned with the frameworks East Africa and the African Union have already committed to.
Aspirations 1 (inclusive growth & agricultural transformation) and 6 (people-driven development, gender equity, children & youth) — AgriKonnekt's verification layer gives both a measurable data backbone.
Supports the continental commitment to end hunger and halve post-harvest losses by building the traceability and market-linkage infrastructure CAADP targets assume exists.
Directly supports the Agricultural Sector Transformation and Growth Strategy's push for climate-smart, technology-enabled, market-linked farming under the Bottom-Up Economic Transformation Agenda.
Contributes to regional food security and agro-industrialisation goals by building interoperable data infrastructure that can scale across East African Community member states.
Onboard priority cooperatives, issue digital farmer identities, capture baseline household and climate-risk data across target counties.
Deploy IoT/satellite monitoring and SMS advisory across pilot sites; open the real-time public data feed for external review.
Connect verified farmers to aggregators, buyers and finance/insurance partners; publish first quarterly impact update on uif.kilimora.africa.
Publish full BSD/CERN/CC-BY-licensed release, document lessons for replication, and prepare a scale-up plan across additional counties and, eventually, EAC states.
Targeting is deliberate: the households least visible to formal systems are the ones most exposed to climate shocks — and where children carry the most risk when a harvest fails.
AgriKonnekt is released as open-source technology under OSI-listed licenses, in line with the Innovation Fund's eligibility requirements, with an existing prototype and pilot results already in progress.
This initiative is managed by Kilimora, which retains automatic copyright in the underlying code the moment it is written — no registration is required under the Kenya Copyright Act. The licenses below are Kilimora's explicit grant of permission for open, public reuse.
| Software | BSD 3-Clause License (open-source, OSI-approved) — full text included in the project's LICENSE file. |
| Hardware | CERN Open Hardware Licence (CERN‑OHL) for IoT sensor and diagnostic device designs. |
| Design & content | Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC‑BY 4.0) for documentation, design assets and written content. |
Kilimora is registered as a private company in Kenya, a UNICEF programme country.
AgriKonnekt is live as a working platform, with initial pilots underway across target counties.
Every layer — code, hardware designs and content — ships under an OSI-equivalent or CC-BY license.
Real-time impact data is publicly exposed and independently verifiable, not self-reported only.
For clarifications on this Expression of Interest, pilot data, or a walkthrough of the live AgriKonnekt platform.
Kilimora is the managing entity behind AgriKonnekt and this Expression of Interest. All supporting evidence — pilot data, the open-source repository, and the 2-minute pitch video — is linked from the live microsite above.
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