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With a new loan of EUR 300,000 Sistema will empower 600 families in India, creating value from waste to power their agribusiness with renewable energy (only available for Dutch investors).
El proyecto
NB: ONLY TAX RESIDENTS OF THE NETHERLANDS ARE ALLOWED TO INVEST IN THIS OFFER
Summary
Sistema.bio is a Mexican social enterprise that has been operating since 2010. We manufacture, sell, distribute, install, and finance high-quality biodigesters as turnkey packages for small-scale farmers. Our mission is to create value from waste all around the world: renewable energy (biogas) and organic fertilizer.
The problem: smallholder farmers produce almost 80% of the worldwide food. However, they are also the population that faces important barriers such as climate change, soil degradation and lack of access to financial services to improve their lives.
The solution: biodigesters and full wrap-around service allow farmers to benefit from what used to be a problem (manure) to transform it into renewable energy. The digester also is a waste management system and contributes to eliminating pollution spots and reducing greenhouse gases. In that way, farmers can cook without smoke, avoiding pulmonary diseases, and also increase the productivity of their farms with organic fertilizer.
Sistema.bio has a holistic approach to address poverty, food security, and climate change, we work through three axes: technology, capacity building and financing. This solution allows us to solve problems efficiently and end the circle of disadvantages that previously seemed impossible to break, to create a more sustainable, equitable and empathic world without waste.
The project
Our goal is to ensure that our clients reap all the possible benefits from their Sistema.bio digester by ensuring long-term adoption and strong return on investment.
How do we do this? Our approach consists of 6 steps: https://goo.gl/fB12nX
With their loan, farmers can pay the system with the savings they are making in fertilizer, wood, charcoal or LP gas; allowing them to pay for the whole system and service within 9-10 months on average, maximizing their return on investment.
With a loan Sistema.bio will be able to manufacture and export 600 bio-digesters from our manufacturing plant in Mexico to our clients in India. After the half-day installation provided by Sistema.bio, farmers will start displacing fossil fuels, powering their farms with renewable energy and increase their crop production with organic fertilizer. The loan will also boost our operations in india where we have already created 40 jobs in the local communities.
The loan addresses the gap between the moment the biodigester is produced and the moment it is installed and paid by small farmers. Each euro we´re going to receive from Lendahand community will cover the cost of manufacturing, shipping and installing biodigesters ordered by our Indian clients. Once the biodigester is ready to be used, after an approximate 6-month cycle, our client pays it. Therefore, the euro lent by Lendahand to Sistema.bio is given back to the community.
Awards
● Social Business of the year, 2010 Businesses in Development (BiD Network)
● Switzer Environmental Leadership Fellow
● Fellow Ashoka, New Ventures Mexico
● Buckminster Fuller Challenge 2017 Finalists
● Endeavor entrepreneurs
● B Corp
● GIIRS Company
● UBS Visionaries
Sistema.bio
Impacto
Al crear energía renovable a partir de desechos orgánicos, Sistema.bio aborda la pobreza, la seguridad alimentaria y el cambio climático con sus innovadores biodigestores. Su objetivo es permitir que los agricultores de todo el mundo transformen el estiércol de un problema a una solución a través del biogás utilizando biodigestores.
Los hogares rurales en mercados emergentes, como India, carecen de acceso confiable a la electricidad y, a menudo, dependen del queroseno nocivo para la iluminación y la leña para cocinar. Estos son perjudiciales para la salud de los usuarios y contribuyen a la contaminación. Los biodigestores de Sistema permiten a los agricultores aumentar su productividad al mismo tiempo que reducen sus residuos y emisiones de gases de efecto invernadero. Dado que la familia del agricultor puede cocinar con biogás limpio y gratuito todos los días, también contribuye a un ambiente hogareño más saludable para sus familias.
Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible
Invirtiendo en este proyecto contribuyes a los siguientes Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible:
ODS 1 - Fin de la pobreza
ODS 2 - Hambre cero
ODS 7 - Energía limpia y asequible
ODS 13 - Acción climática
Lea más sobre el impacto que puede tener a través de Lendahand y los ODS en nuestra página de impacto.
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