This week on the Finding Impact Podcast, we are talking to Dr. Christie Peacock, founder of Sidai. We’re going to do an interview about her recent experience of raising a round for her social enterprise Sidai Africa. Sidai offers farmers solutions to the challenges they face growing crops and livestock productively and profitably. So Sidai trains farmers to help them farm more profitably, and pr...

Rows of white faces stare out from the social media meme showing tech start-up executives circulating among young Kenyans, who are angry that foreign entrepreneurs attract more capital than they do. A young Kenyan entrepreneur, almost in tears, told us she needs a white face to front her start-up if she is going to raise capital. Village Capital found that 90% of the capital&...

Silicon Valley’s tech giants have been eagerly taking stock of the growing numbers of motorbikes speeding through the streets of Kenya. When Google launched a ‘Motorbike Mode’ on its Maps in Kenya last October, the company noted on its Africa blog how “over a million Kenyans use motorbikes as their preferred mode of transport.” Accordingly, ridesharing apps like Uber and Taxify have also both tail...

Kenyan company, Sidai Africa Ltd, has secured a Sh225 million investment from global agri-technology company, Devenish Nutrition. Sidai Africa Ltd supplies crop and livestock products and services to farmers with a unique ‘last-mile’ delivery service model which enables the company reach farmers in some of the country’s most remote areas. In Africa, up to a quarter of livestock die annually due ...

Dr. Odede of Sidai Africa is featured in Daily Nation news article. He says that farmers are grappling with the problem of tick control mainly because of poor tick control methods, failure to spray as recommended, partial tick control in the herd and ticks developing resistance to acaricides used over the years. Many farmers only control the big ticks when they physically notice them on thei...

Dr. Odede of Sidai Africa is featured in Business Daily news article. He highlights vaccination as the best solution for the diseases facing farmers and pastrolists in Mt. Kenya region.  Due to drought experienced in this region during dry season, pastrolist are forced to encroach into the fnational park and game reserves forest where their animals interract with Wild animals and get infected...

Sidai Africa Chairman Dr. Christie Peacock was featured in the World Economic Forum on 10 lessons from leaders: social entrepreneurs tell all. The livestock expert says integrity is essential: “People have to believe in you, and believe that you’re true to the vision. So you have to do that in the way that you live and work, and your actions must match your words.” Successful leaders kee...

Sidai Africa Chairman Dr. Christie Peacock receives receives Africa Social Entrepreneurs of the Year Award (2015)  in Cape Town (South Africa). Read More..