TAHMO is working on various aspects: developing a better weather station; educating young people in Africa about climate change by providing schools with an educational program and; developing local business cases with local entrepreneurs to cover the running costs of the weather stations, data collecting and data assimilation to ensure a sustainable future for the project. Last month, some of the TAHMO team members went to Ghana to work on developing business models together with local partners. In two weeks many potential business models have been generated, validated, prototyped, and evaluated.
In Ghana, TAHMO partnered up with a young social enterprise called Farmerline. They are a technology product company building supply chain and value chain solutions to integrate agricultural outputs of rural farmers in Africa/emerging markets. In Ghana, Farmerline will be responsible for ‘packaging’ the climate data generated by TAHMO into a product that needs to reach 10.000 small-holder cocoa farmers in a year and a half.
Boukje Vastbinder (TU Delft) was asked to help with the kick-off of the business case development and prepared a 4-day workshop to help plan the business case development process. Their findings can be found below.