Improving financial health of smallholder farmers: by giving smallholder farmers access to an online platform where they can sell their products directly to consumers, Plant on Demand is enabling small and mid-sized producers to digitize, professionalize, and scale their direct and community-based sales, helping them to compete with industrial agriculture.

Currently, Plant on Demand works with nearly 200 producers, coops and food hubs

Promoting higher economic productivity for smallholder farmers: Plant on Demand fosters economic productivity by serving as a task centralizing tool, enabling producers to manage sales, inventory, shipping, invoicing and analytics in one place.

This means farmers can spend less time doing administrative work to focus on productivity and business growth. A platform user saves up to 8 hours per week with the use of this technology

Promoting sustainable development and lifestyles in harmony with nature: Plant on Demand promotes the sustainable development of the agricultural sector by strengthening the financial resilience of smallholder farmers, reducing the sector’s carbon footprint by bringing producers closer to consumers, and ensuring that consumers have access to locally sourced, freshly produced goods.

In total, more than 76.000 people have access to organic, local and fresh products daily through the Plant on Demand platform, with 180 schools sourcing their food directly from local producers.

Promoting the empowerment of communities for it’s development: Plant on Demand has created a module and an acceleration program to support the development of food hubs (a cooperative network where local farmers join forces to sell and distribute their products together), designed to strengthen collaboration within the sustainable production ecosystem, optimize the supply chain, and empower producers.

To date, the company has supported the establishment of 20 food hubs, bringing together over 450 farmers.