Who we are
Arinifu is a social enterprise that provides poultry farmers with automated, sustainable, and affordable chicken farming solutions. Our products aim to ensure that our farmers’ flocks are as comfortable as possible, allowing them to thrive while enabling farmers to receive fair and decent pay for their work. To us, it’s all about meeting our clients’ needs and delighting them. This is our guiding light.
Our vision is to increase poultry animal welfare by providing access to new, affordable, and efficient technologies.
Poultry farming is widely practised in Africa. Though mostly small-scale, commercial poultry farming is ever increasing to fulfill the nutrition demand in Africa. To enhance small holder productivity, technology has been adopted by many farmers and is even termed as the fifth factor of production.
Core Values
- Innovation: Embedded in our name. Ari- Swahili for ‘Strong desire’ Ubunifu- Swahili for ‘Innovate’
- Integrity: For us, integrity is absolute. You either have it or you don't. We do
- Customer focus: No matter the problem or the time, we are always committed to serving our clients
- Growth: We strive to improve the lives not only of our team but also our clients. We keep breaking boundaries and looking for ways to improve.
Our value proposition
- Increased efficiency: Smart brooder allows for more efficient poultry production, reducing labor costs and minimizing the risk of disease and mortality in chicks.
- Sustainability: Incorporating Smart brooders contributes to more sustainable and climate adaptive poultry farming practices, reducing the industry's carbon footprint and promoting ethical treatment of poultry.
- Improved quality: By ensuring optimal conditions for poultry growth and development, Smart Brooder enables farmers to keep healthier more productive flocks.
- Cost savings: By streamlining poultry production, offering insights through Kuku Smart Mobile App, and providing access to markets, we help small-scale farmers save on production costs and maximize profits.
- Essentially our value proposition is to help small-scale poultry farmers improve their bird comfort, quality of flocks, and profitability while promoting sustainability and ethical practices in the industry.
Theory of Change
If we
Build Africa’s largest chicken farmer network, providing them with:
Then
Chicken farmers will greatly improve their animal’s welfare and quality, enabling us build an Africa that feeds herself and the world…
SDG
Leading to attainment of:
Precision agriculture equipment
Access to better record keeping
Access to price information and market trends
Climate action – by transitioning farmers from charcoal to cleaner heat sources. A smallholder farmer uses 1,200 kg per year which is roughly 5,000kg of Co2 equivalent
Decent Work & Economic Growth – through using our solutions farmers’ income increases by 20% annually
Gender Equality – more than 60% of our farmers are female
Responsible consumption and production- producing chicken outputs meeting the highest quality standards that are Kenya Bureau of Standards Certified
Zero Hunger-with 2 /3 of the world population being protein deficient, we work to reduce the death of chicks before maturity and provide farmers with a digital avenue to reach premium markets
If we
Build Africa’s largest chicken farmer network, providing them with:
Precision agriculture equipment
Access to better record keeping
Access to price information and market to sell their produce at competitive prices
Then
Chicken farmers will increase their efficiency, enabling us build an Africa that feeds herself and the world…
SDG
Leading to attainment of:
Climate action – by transitioning farmers from charcoal to cleaner heat sources. A smallholder farmer uses 100 kg per season. Moving from charcoal to LPG reduces CO2 emissions by 80%
Decent Work & Economic Growth – through using our solutions farmers’ income increases by 20% annually
Gender Equality – more than 60% of our farmers are female
Responsible consumption and production- producing chicken outputs meeting the highest quality standards that are Kenya Bureau of Standards Certified
Zero Hunger-with 2 /3 of the world population being protein deficient, we work not only to reduce the death of chicks before maturity but also process and sell 15 tons of chicken monthly
Impact
The Team
Eddah Wanjiru
PR and Legal Lead
Beatrice Wambui
Sales and Admin
George Chege
Operations Lead
Dennis Kulu
Technical Lead
Peter Lokine
Field Support
Virginia Kariithi
Sales Associate
Boniface
Production Lead
Ibra
Production
Hassan
Production
Tony
Production
Regina
Production
Dino
Production
Media and partners
