Agsol https://agsol.com Fri, 22 Aug 2025 08:44:31 +0000 en-AU hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.2.2 School Feeding at Scale: The Untapped Opportunity. Market insights brief_No.6 – Aug 2025 https://agsol.com/school-feeding-at-scale-the-untapped-opportunity-market-insights-brief_no-6-aug-2025/ Fri, 22 Aug 2025 08:44:29 +0000 https://agsol.com/?p=79206 Agsol reflects on 18 months of school-based milling: where classrooms double as food hubs, women lead as guardians of food quality, and school feeding becomes a shared community effort. This model blends nutrition, livelihoods, and clean energy—showing how schools can spearhead a transformation in rural food systems. Read Market Insight Brief No.6 here!

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]]> Agsol reflects on 18 months of school-based milling: where classrooms double as food hubs, women lead as guardians of food quality, and school feeding becomes a shared community effort. This model blends nutrition, livelihoods, and clean energy—showing how schools can spearhead a transformation in rural food systems. Read Market Insight Brief No.6 here!

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]]> Flour Power: Agsol and WHH Partnership Impact Report https://agsol.com/flour-power-agsol-and-whh-partnership-impact-report/ Thu, 29 May 2025 07:16:25 +0000 https://agsol.com/?p=79128 Discover how Agsol and Welthungerhilfe are transforming rural Kenya with women-owned solar mills. This impact report highlights how clean energy is advancing nutrition, gender equity, and climate action—one community at a time. Read the full story here!

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]]> Discover how Agsol and Welthungerhilfe are transforming rural Kenya with women-owned solar mills. This impact report highlights how clean energy is advancing nutrition, gender equity, and climate action—one community at a time. Read the full story here!

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]]> Revolutionizing milling industry and addressing affordability constraints Case Study: Agsol https://agsol.com/revolutionizing-milling-industry-and-addressing-affordability-constraints-case-study-agsol-2/ Wed, 14 May 2025 07:11:56 +0000 https://agsol.com/?p=79123 Explore how Agsol is empowering women in agriculture through innovative solar milling solutions in this case study. In collaboration with GOGLA and Distill Inclusion, we’ve gained valuable insights from women customers to enhance our business models and create more inclusive solutions. Read the full case study here!

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]]> Explore how Agsol is empowering women in agriculture through innovative solar milling solutions in this case study. In collaboration with GOGLA and Distill Inclusion, we’ve gained valuable insights from women customers to enhance our business models and create more inclusive solutions. Read the full case study here!

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]]> Agsol on track to beat World Banks’ projections by 5 years_Market Insight No. 5 https://agsol.com/https-agsol-com-wp-content-uploads-2024-10-market-insight-no-5-pulse-review-pdf/ Fri, 04 Oct 2024 12:36:53 +0000 https://agsol.com/?p=79023 When the World Bank released its landmark Productive Use Leveraging Solar Energy (PULSE) report in 2019, PUE was still an emerging concept. Read more about how Agsol’s solar milling system is set to beat the World Bank Group’s 2019 forecast, reaching affordability targets five years ahead of the 2030 timeline, here!

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]]> When the World Bank released its landmark Productive Use Leveraging Solar Energy (PULSE) report in 2019, PUE was still an emerging concept. Read more about how Agsol’s solar milling system is set to beat the World Bank Group’s 2019 forecast, reaching affordability targets five years ahead of the 2030 timeline, here!

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]]> Clean milling, safe food. Market insights brief_No.4 – Sept. 2024 https://agsol.com/https-agsol-com-wp-content-uploads-2024-09-market-insight-brief-4-clean-milling-safe-food-pdf/ Thu, 26 Sep 2024 12:08:15 +0000 https://agsol.com/?p=79009 Asol had the opportunity to attend a 3-day training on Aflatoxin Detection and Control organized by the Eastern African Grain Council (EAGC) in partnership with the World Food Programme (WFP) in Uganda. As a manufacturer of clean and efficient agri-processing machinery, Agsol understands that food safety is as important as productivity.  Read more about our […]

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]]> Asol had the opportunity to attend a 3-day training on Aflatoxin Detection and Control organized by the Eastern African Grain Council (EAGC) in partnership with the World Food Programme (WFP) in Uganda.

As a manufacturer of clean and efficient agri-processing machinery, Agsol understands that food safety is as important as productivity. 

Read more about our insights from the training and on the topic in general here!

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]]> The MicroMill in Numbers part 2. Market insights brief_No.3 – June 2024 https://agsol.com/https-agsol-com-wp-content-uploads-2024-06-the-agsol-micromill-in-numbers-part-2-pdf/ Fri, 28 Jun 2024 15:23:15 +0000 https://agsol.com/?p=79002 At Agsol, we are committed to showing that the MicroMill is not just a good business investment—it’s a transformative one. And we are gathering increasingly more data to prove it! Thanks to our data partner ClimaFi, we’ve now automated the IoT data collection process, providing us with near real-time visual updates on key metrics. Read […]

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]]> At Agsol, we are committed to showing that the MicroMill is not just a good business investment—it’s a transformative one. And we are gathering increasingly more data to prove it!

Thanks to our data partner ClimaFi, we’ve now automated the IoT data collection process, providing us with near real-time visual updates on key metrics.

Read Market Insight Brief No.3 with updated costumer insights here!

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]]> Serving gold in schools. Market insights brief_No.2 – June 2024 https://agsol.com/https-agsol-com-wp-content-uploads-2024-06-market-insight-brief-2-serving-gold-in-schools-pdf/ Fri, 14 Jun 2024 13:40:09 +0000 https://agsol.com/?p=78994 In this series, we delve into the world of school feeding initiatives and how the MicroMill can empower schools to produce healthy, affordable meals on-site, reducing costs and administrative burdens. Our innovation has the potential to impact millions of children in Sub-Saharan Africa who rely on that crucial school meal. So, what do school feeding […]

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]]> In this series, we delve into the world of school feeding initiatives and how the MicroMill can empower schools to produce healthy, affordable meals on-site, reducing costs and administrative burdens. Our innovation has the potential to impact millions of children in Sub-Saharan Africa who rely on that crucial school meal. So, what do school feeding programs and the MicroMill have in common? As it turns out, everything!

Read the full Market Insight Brief No.2 here!

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]]> The MicroMill in numbers. Market insights brief_No.1 – March 2024 https://agsol.com/https-agsol-com-wp-content-uploads-2024-04-the-agsol-micromill-in-numbers-market-insight-brief-no1-march-2024-pdf/ Thu, 28 Mar 2024 09:15:15 +0000 https://agsol.com/?p=78967 In this Market Insight Brief we report on IoT data gathered by 15 of our millers, combined with qualitative data collection about fees charged for milling and/or flour sales. The MicroMill is a good business! The top third of MicroMill owners: generate a simple payback of less than 3 months generate an average income over […]

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]]> In this Market Insight Brief we report on IoT data gathered by 15 of our millers, combined with qualitative data collection about fees charged for milling and/or flour sales. The MicroMill is a good business!

  • The top third of MicroMill owners:
    • generate a simple payback of less than 3 months
    • generate an average income over 500 USD/month, 3 times higher than the low-income threshold
  • The average MicroMill owner generates a simple payback of 8 months

Read the full Market Insight Brief No.1 here!

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]]> Better food champions of the future. Call for partnerships – March 2024 https://agsol.com/https-agsol-com-wp-content-uploads-2024-03-better-food-champions-of-the-future-call-for-partnerships-with-agsol-march-2024-pdf/ Wed, 27 Mar 2024 07:01:54 +0000 https://agsol.com/?p=78959 The post Better food champions of the future. Call for partnerships – March 2024 appeared first on Agsol.

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Today, over half a billion people in Africa rely on dominantly male operated diesel mills as the ‘gateway’ to process the staple food they grow and depend on. This means that the responsibility for safe and hygienic processing of flour, along with the cleanliness and proper storage of grains, quite literally rests in the hands of male mechanics. What happens when we change this gateway? 

As Agsol scales to 100,000 products that will feed 25 million people over the next 5 years, we ask ourselves “What else can we do to promote better food outcomes?”

Read our call for partnerships here!

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]]> Improving Access and Affordability of Staple Food Processing for Refugees https://agsol.com/improving-access-and-affordability-of-staple-food-processing-for-refugees/ Wed, 14 Feb 2024 12:49:01 +0000 https://agsol.com/?p=78981 Through the WFP Innovation Accelerator Sprint Programme, Agsol conducted market research and piloted its solar-powered MicroMill in Kakuma and Kalobeyei, in collaboration with SNV’s Market Based Energy Access (MBEA) project in 2022. This blog post highlights Agsol’s current work in Kakuma and our commitment to improving access and affordability of staple food processing for refugees. […]

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]]> Through the WFP Innovation Accelerator Sprint Programme, Agsol conducted market research and piloted its solar-powered MicroMill in Kakuma and Kalobeyei, in collaboration with SNV’s Market Based Energy Access (MBEA) project in 2022.

This blog post highlights Agsol’s current work in Kakuma and our commitment to improving access and affordability of staple food processing for refugees.

Read the read the full article here!

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