Solar irrigation pumps for sustainable farming.
Customer group:
Smallholder farmer
Region:
Africa
Joint partners with Shell Foundation:
FCDO, BII and Equator Fund
FCDO funding type:
Partner since:
2018
Technology:
Solar water pump
Strategic pillar:
Fostering innovation
About
SunCulture is a climate-smart agriculture and productive-use service provider to smallholder farmers, offering solar-water pumps, energy access, and financing in sub-Saharan Africa. SunCulture accelerates farmer access to energy through its innovative business model, which incorporates energy assets with enabling farmer services.
Project Focus
Shell Foundation supports SunCulture to pilot and commercialise their PAYGrow asset financing platform, and develop associated sales process, systems, distribution channels and KPIs.
Most recently Shell Foundation has enabled SunCulture to pilot carbon financing to demonstrate the impact on increased sales through lowering the cost of assets; that has confirmed investments by BII and others, and expansion into markets outside of Kenya, including Ethiopia, Zambia, Uganda, and Ivory Coast.
Insights and impact
Latest news and updates
FCDO
Micro-Entrepreneurs
Smallholder Farmers
East Africa
Southeast Asia
Cold Storage
Post-Harvest Processing
Lessons learned from addressing the sustainable cooling challenge
For smallholder farmers and microentrepreneurs in Sub-Saharan Africa and India, access to affordable, energy-efficient cooling can mean the difference between…
01st August 2025
FCDO
Gender
Smallholder Farmers
East Africa
Southeast Asia
West Africa
Cold Storage
Post-Harvest Processing
Solutions to Reduce Post-Harvest Loss for Smallholder Farmers
New research highlights the value chains most impacted by post-harvest losses and identifies key areas where innovation is essential to…
30th July 2025