Who We Are
BIOSORRA is a female-led company in Kenya that aims to address climate justice and farming resilience. Using patented technology and R&D, it provides biochar carbon removal in the form of Biochar Bora biofertilizer to farmers and clean energy to self-sustain its operations.
Its unique model prioritizes local employment, stimulating the economy, and delivering social equity benefits while ensuring a circular economy and food security among farmers in the Global South.
Our Product
Our main product is Biochar Bora which can be used in all crops and soils while sequestering CO2 durably in agricultural soils. Biochar Bora has several benefits including soil fertility restoration, irrigation water reduction, circular economy, and farmers’ incomes increase both by cost savings and overall 27% crop yield improvement BIOSORRA’s average measurement.
Our Farmers
BIOSORRA has its operations all over Kenya but has been more established in about 8 counties ie Murangá, Kiambu, Machakos, Kirinyaga, Embu, Meru, Nyeri, and Nakuru. Please follow our activities on Linkedin or reach out directly to us through info@biosorra.com
What makes Biosorra unique?
Affordability of our product, Biochar Bora
Most smallholder farmers cannot purchase available synthetic fertilizers due to their high costs. Fertilizers must be purchased and applied around five times per year, during planting, topdressing, and sometimes liming. (Business Daily Africa 2021) The cost of production can be drastically reduced by switching to Biochar Bora, as costs will be much cheaper than continuously buying fertilizer.
Regenerative Agriculture School to farmers on climate-resilient cultivation
BIOSORRA is the leading Biochar Industry in East Africa, understanding that simply providing Biochar Bora is one part of the puzzle. It provides regenerative agriculture education to farmers to ensure they can effectively harness the power of Biochar Bora while adapting to their needs to get their yields to their highest potential.
Best-in-class Tech and Know-How in an emerging industry
BIOSORRA brings a best-in-class group of climate rockstars, with +50 years of experience in engineering, sustainability, science, business, and farming in vulnerable communities. BIOSORRA engineered patented high-technology and R&D to control biochar stability, adapt infrastructure to emerging economies, and optimize soil health agronomic performance scalability.
Awards
- XPRIZE student award winners
- MIT Solve for Climate
- Winners of Africa TiE Women
- Keeling Curve Prize
- Mulago Henry Arnhold Fellows 2024
- Respond BMW
BIOSORRA X PAF Partnership
BIOSORRA and Pace Able Foundation have joined hands to create over 5 demonstration farms in our focus counties to serve as dedicated agricultural sites where an array of techniques, technologies, and innovations are meticulously showcased to farmers, researchers, and the broader community. These sites play a pivotal role in propelling the advancement of agricultural practices and knowledge dissemination. We have utilized these demo farms as a platform to have a farming school about Biochar Bora with farmers, focusing on its value for different crops and measured:
1. Farmers’ cost savings from utilizing BIOSORRA’s Biochar Bora.
2. Increased crop yields.
3. Improve soil health.
What´s Next
As for BIOSORRA’s own internal goals, the company aims not only to grow organically but is expanding its operations in Kenya and the continent, looking to launch new products, and green job employment. With the mission of removing 1MTCO2e from the atmosphere and impacting 10M farmers in the near future.
In the tapestry of carbon dioxide removal solutions to climate change, BIOSORRA stands to make a big impact with biochar on the effects of climate injustice in the Global South.
Climate doesn’t wait. We can see and feel the implications of environmental neglect. As BIOSORRA we are excited to pioneer this and look for other climate rockstars to join us.
CEO’s Statement
