Mafisa
300 million African pastoralists eke out a living from small cattle herds. Without access to water, basic vet services, or sufficient grass, most animals die before sale—and there’s little incentive to manage grazing. The result is a vicious cycle of grassland degradation and poverty.
The Idea
Wrap Around Services for Pastoralists
Total Investment
750000
Grants
0
Equity/SAFE
0
Debt/Convertible Debt
Funded Since
2021
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Sector
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The Mission
Thriving pastoralists in healthy rangelands.
How It Works
Mafisa provides new water points, vet services and critical market linkages to pastoralists in exchange for a commitment to practice regenerative grazing. Regenerative grazing boosts land productivity and sequesters carbon, allowing Mafisa to tap carbon markets to fund the whole thing.
The Dream
Mafisa inspires copycats to provide services to pastoralists across Africa, paid by the carbon market.
Why We're In
Over the past two years, Mafisa has cut wildfire rates by 53% and grown herds by 13.7% — both by reducing mortality and increasing calving rates. And early internal evidence finds farmers are already earning 5x their income. An on-going IDInsight study and more time will help move their evidence from compelling to rigorous. They've secured a carbon contract with Shell for their first 1M hectares, with 2M more in the pipeline.This is a bet that every hectare can be managed profitably after providing services for pastoralists – a model that needs to be copied across Africa.
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