About
S4S Technologies equips smallholder women farmers in India with solar-powered conduction dryers and food processing tools, enabling them to preserve surplus crops on-site.
S4S connects farmers directly to commercial buyers, ensuring fair profits and creating nutrient-dense, preservative-free food products with a low carbon footprint. These farmers save resources and increase their income by 9–15%.
Project Focus
Shell Foundation is supporting S4S to help these women farmers strengthen their businesses with reduced losses and market linkages and establish others as micro-entrepreneurs able to run the dehydrators as standalone enterprises. S4S Technologies won the 2023 Earthshot Prize.
Insights and impact
Latest news and updates from S4S
FCDO
Mobilising Finance
Micro-Entrepreneurs
Smallholder Farmers
Southeast Asia
Post-Harvest Processing
Shell Foundation provides guarantee to catalyse U.S. International Development Finance Corporation for S4S, supporting smallholder farmers and entrepreneurs
15th April 2026
FCDO
Gender
Micro-Entrepreneurs
Smallholder Farmers
Southeast Asia
Post-Harvest Processing
Smart Energy Systems
Empowering women, powering change: The S4S Technologies journey with Shell Foundation
Empowering women micro-entrepreneurs through solar innovation – discover how S4S Technologies and Shell Foundation are transforming agri-food value chains across…
02nd December 2025