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 from SunCulture
FCDO
Fostering Innovation
Smallholder Farmers
East Africa
Post-Harvest Processing
How solar irrigation is transforming the lives of smallholder farmers in Kenya – lessons and the road ahead
Solar-powered irrigation is helping smallholder farmers in Kenya build resilience to climate shocks, improve nutrition, and reduce post-harvest losses.
28th January 2026
FCDO
Fostering Innovation
Smallholder Farmers
East Africa
Asset Financing
Post-Harvest Processing
Solar Water Pumps
Building a successful climate-tech startup: The SunCulture story
Discover how Shell Foundation and the FCDO’s catalytic support helped SunCulture turn bold ideas into scalable impact through timely, risk-tolerant…
08th October 2025