Mafisa
300M African pastoralists eke out a living from small cattle herds. Most animals die before they can be sold, so farmers have little incentive to manage grazing. The result is a vicious cycle of grassland degradation and poverty.
The Idea
Affordable Vet Services
Total Investment
750000
Grants
0
Equity/SAFE
0
Debt/Convertible Debt
Funded Since
2021
Geography
Sector
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The Mission
Thriving pastoralists in healthy rangelands.
How It Works
Mafisa provides an ingenious solution: they provide cheap basic vet services and critical market linkages in exchange for a commitment to practice regenerative grazing. Regenerative grazing, in turn, boosts land productivity and sequesters carbon, allowing Mafisa to tap into carbon markets. Cattle are fatter and healthier—and farmers sell a lot more of them.
The Dream
Mafisa thrives and drives an industry of similar businesses that serve farmers across Africa.
Why We're In
This intervention has the potential to drive multiples of baseline income—by a potentially profitable business—and in the past two years Mafisa has dropped herd mortality by 30%. We hope the business model can work even without carbon credits, but for now, sales of premium credits are powering a rapid expansion of necessary veterinary and buying service centers. We’ve witnessed an extraordinary evolution of this company, and if this works, it could have a massive impact across Africa.
Community Health Impact Coalition (CHIC)
Professionalized Community Health Workers (proCHW)
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