At a Glance
Location: Brazil
Impact Areas: Sustainable Agriculture and Income, Technology Inclusion
People Supported:
Smallholder Farmers
Joined NESsT Portfolio:
2022
Overview
In Brazil, family farming contributes significantly toward national food security, producing an estimated 70 percent of total food consumed while only using 25 percent of the country’s land. As importantly, family farms sustain livelihoods – seventy percent of the nation’s rural workforce are employed by small-scale farms.
ManejeBem is a Brazilian enterprise that provides digital tools and technical assistance to rural farming families to enhance their agricultural processes and improve their incomes. Its products include an online platform and a mobile application that enables farmers to communicate with each other and document important farming information when working on the field. The Brazilian enterprise analyzes the social, economic, environmental and agronomic data collected by farmers and generates insights that enhance production processes for small scale farmers, improving their output quality while promoting sustainable environmental practices.
ManejeBem also leverages its data to improve large-scale production processes. By offering corporate consulting services, the enterprise connects small farmers directly to agroindustry companies via its platform, motivating industry-wide changes that respect the livelihoods of rural producers and protect the local habitat.
For farmers, ManejeBem not only offers training in environment-safe agricultural techniques that can increase the value of their products, but also equips them with financial management skills that help them to access new credit lines, advancing the digital and the financial inclusion of rural farmers.
Today, Manejebem is present in ten Brazilian states, reaching more than 900,000 farmers through its website, and over 4,500 farmers via its chat service.
Results & Impact
900,000
farmers on the platform
4,500
farmers using ManejeBem’s chat service
10
Brazilian states reached
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NESsT’s investment with flexible repayment conditions is very helpful for strengthening ManejeBem’s solution. The know-how of the NESsT team in impact measurement provides us with a unique opportunity to improve our reports and generate more and more positive impact.”
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NESsT Investment
NESsT’s investment will support ManejeBem to develop new app features and improve its user interface, allowing more farmers to better navigate and utilize its technology services. NESsT will offer strategic guidance to help ManejeBem to strengthen its marketing capacity, grow its team, expand its existing services, and access new markets and partnerships with the goal to improve the incomes of small farming families.
As part of the NESsT Amazonia portfolio, ManejeBem will have opportunities to offer its digital solutions to a network of Amazonia-based cooperatives and enterprises that work to strengthen biodiverse value chains.