Noël N’guessan

LONO provides technology and services to farmers and food processors to unlock the value in their waste streams. The company manufactures machinery locally for the small farmers and small processors to treat directly their solid and liquid waste into clean energy and organic fertilizers. The fertilizer and energy are for their own needs or sold. LONO also provides services such as trainings and technical assistance for pilot projects to larger actors that aggregate farmers in order to increase LONO's impact across the value chain. Farming and agroprocessing generates organic waste that can be up to 10 times the quantity of the sold product. This excess material currently generates no additional income for farmers or food processors despite proven technologies being available around the world for many decades. The current available technologies remain inaccessible to small farmers for their high upfront costs and the lack of business models adapted to the hard to reach and low-income small farmers. LONO's innovation is in the packaging of the fermentation process into a simple solar powered box that can be manufactured locally and distributed to areas with limited infrastructure.