Helping low income households increase self-reliance by providing direct access to local markets, where their livestock can be bartered for solar energy products.
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What we do
We enable smallholder rural, off-grid farming communities to meet their farming and household needs using livestock as currency
Our Products and Services
E-Mandi
E-Mandi is UpTrade’s electronic livestock market platform which provides an innovative solution to small-holder livestock farmers and low income households looking for direct access to markets and alternative financing mechanisms. By enabling these communities to leverage their assets and unlock the non-cash liquidity of their livestock, UpTrade plays an important role in helping them purchase essential solar farming assets.
Goats for Water
Goats for Water is where we began. This is the innovative bartering model through which off-grid, water stressed rural communities purchase solar water pumps using their livestock as currency. Our technical team and product partners design, install and maintain solar based pumping solutions based on the specific water requirements of each community, hydraulic profile of the area and the capacity to pay.
Goats for Solar
Like Goats for Water, Goats for Solar provides a similar barter financing solution to off-grid rural communities, enabling them to trade their livestock for access to solar energy products and solar micro-grids. Many of these communities struggle for access to energy to meet their basic day to day living requirements. UpTrade’s Goats for Solar model grants them access to clean, renewable energy systems and products such as solar lighting, fans, televisions, radios and charging stations for mobile phones.
Our Impact
UpTrade’s double bottom line mission is to bring economic and social prosperity to base of the pyramid, off-grid, smallholder farming communities by increasing livelihood, while improving the quality of life for women and girls through easy access to clean water, energy, and farming inputs.
$200
Increase in annual household income
100,000+
Number of farmers reached / E-mandi
100,000
Number of people impacted
Providing a faster and more efficient way for women to collect water, enabling them to concentrate on education, practicing local handicrafts and other household chores.
Providing a faster and more efficient way for women to collect water, enabling them to concentrate on education, practicing local handicrafts and other household chores.
1,460
Hours of labour saved per woman per year
8,500
Number of women and girls impacted
Easier access to clean water and energy means improved health and hygiene for all households in impacted villages.
2,830
Number of families with access to water
