Divisi Partners

One map, one question:
which fields are in trouble, and why?

One picture of the smallholder fields you buy from, fund, serve or study: which are on track, which are behind, and why — read on the map, without an export and without a GIS licence.

Buy from, fund, advise or study smallholder farmers? See how their fields are doing while the season is still running.

Free for government, extension services, research institutions and registered NGOs. Priced per active farmer for commercial programmes.

Four different jobs, one platform

Yields that swing from season to season, and quality nobody can count on, are one problem seen from four desks. A processor protecting tonnage it already sold, a ministry deciding where to send officers it does not have enough of, a research team trying to observe a season without funding an enumerator round, a programme that must prove something changed. Start with the one that describes you.

Enterprise

Contract farming and outgrower schemes, agro-processors, aggregators and exporters, input suppliers and agro-dealers, agri-finance and insurance.

A yield projection for every contracted field, and a dated record of the work behind it, while there is still season left to act.

Government

Ministries of agriculture, national and provincial extension services, district and rural councils, parastatals, marketing boards, disaster management and early-warning units.

Ward-level crop condition from real fields, and extension advice already reaching the farmers who use Divisi — free to public bodies, permanently.

Academia & Research

Universities and agricultural colleges, national and CGIAR research institutes, agricultural economics and rural development faculties, climate and food-systems programmes.

Continuous field-level data with an ethics story that survives a review board — free at aggregate for accredited institutions.

NGOs & Donor Programmes

International and national NGOs, donor-funded agriculture and resilience programmes, foundations, faith-based organisations, farmer cooperatives and unions, development finance implementers.

A dated record of what participants actually did on their fields, all season, instead of three enumerator rounds and a hope. Registered organisations read the aggregate view free.

a look inside

What you would actually be opening

One map answering one question, whichever of the four you are. What changes is which farmers are on it and how much detail you see, which depends on each farmer's consent and what you have verified. The product is the same.

1,400FIELDS1,186FARMERS2,940HECTARES312BELOW PROJECTION640TONNES AT RISK28.63°E28.72°E28.80°E18.13°S18.22°SNembudziyaGokwe CentreChief SimuchembuOn trackSlightly behindBehindWell behind010 kmN 1,400FIELDS1,186FARMERS2,940HECTARES312BELOW PROJECTION640TONNES AT RISK28.63°E28.72°E28.80°E18.13°S18.22°SNembudziyaGokwe CentreChief SimuchembuOn trackSlightly behindBehindWell behind010 kmN
Needs attention312 fields · 640 t at riskChirundu block C18.4 tT. Moyo · MaizeNot plantedRiverside 212.1 tG. Ncube · MaizeMissed field workHome field9.7 tR. Chirwa · SoyaWeatherMsasa plot7.2 tP. Dube · MaizeMissed field workLower vlei5.8 tA. Banda · GroundnutNo projection yet Needs attention312 fields · 640 t at riskChirundu block C18.4 tT. Moyo · MaizeNot plantedRiverside 212.1 tG. Ncube · MaizeMissed field workHome field9.7 tR. Chirwa · SoyaWeatherMsasa plot7.2 tP. Dube · MaizeMissed field workLower vlei5.8 tA. Banda · GroundnutNo projection yet

The map at field level, which needs each farmer's consent. Illustration — the layout, colours and figures a partner account shows, drawn rather than sampled, because a real cohort belongs to the farmers in it.

How it works, for all four

Farmers keep their records in Divisi because it helps them run their own farm. With their consent, your dashboard reads those same records, so it fills up instead of sitting empty.

Real boundaries

Fields are walked on foot with the phone's GPS and closed into a polygon, so hectares are measured rather than declared and the map is a map rather than a scatter of pins dropped on the nearest village.

A projection that moves

Attainable yield is scored for each field from its own soil, terrain and climate through an implementation of the FAO's GAEZ methodology, then degraded through the season as field work lapses and weather is confirmed.

The reason on the row

Never planted, missed field work, weather — the reasons the dashboard itself prints, on the row. A list sorted by what is at stake, with the cause travelling alongside it, so the output is a plan for the week rather than a number to escalate.

It comes out again

Your cohort is served as GeoJSON from the dashboard, at whatever resolution your account is granted — so it opens directly in QGIS, R or Python rather than living only on our screen.

what your account shows

Resolution follows the relationship

Two resolutions, and which one an account reads at follows what it is entitled to: the area it is approved for, and the fields whose farmers joined its programme.

Area figures

District and ward totals

Counts, hectares, crop mix, condition and the demographic split for the areas your mandate covers — grouped by the administrative boundaries your own statistics already use. Verification is what moves an account from district totals to ward totals.

Field detail

One field, its season, its evidence

The crop, its walked boundary, its projection, the work done and missed, and the dated photographs — for the farmers who joined your programme and agreed to it, per field and per season. Enrolment is how an account reaches this, which is why the invitation flow is part of the product.

The floor under every published figure

Every area figure stands on at least ten farms. Where a ward holds fewer, it merges into its district and is republished there rather than being hidden — so the map sharpens as coverage grows and never goes blank, and no published set lets a suppressed one be recovered by subtraction. That floor is what makes serving these figures legitimate, and it is why a data-protection review of this is short.

The farmer side is free, and stays free

Crop recommendations for the specific field, planting windows, the job due this week with the reason behind it, checking for pests and diseases, weather that names the risk and a farm diary. None of it sits behind a subscription, for anyone, whether or not they are in a programme. Your farmers are never charged to take part in yours — and a farm that holds its yield season after season is what all four of you came for.

Farmers who have to pay to be monitored do not join, and a programme with no members has nothing to show. Divisi exists to help farmers earn more from their own land, so they never pay for the programme that works with them.

See it on your own phone → One link, both stores — it opens the right one for your device.

What organisations ask first

Every farmer on Divisi gets the same free app: what suits their own field, the planting window for it, the job due this week and the reason behind it. They also get the pests and diseases to check for at that stage, weather that names the risk, and a diary of what was done. The aim is fewer avoidable losses and steadier yields on those fields, which is what a consistent supply of good produce is made of.

Commercial programmes are priced per active farmer per year, in graduated bands that fall as the book grows, with the first fifty active farmers free permanently on every account. Aggregate access is free — permanently, with no seat limit — for government bodies, public extension services, accredited academic institutions and registered NGOs. Ask us for a scoped quote and we will price it against your actual programme.

No, and they never will. The Divisi app is free for every farmer whether or not they are in a programme — crop recommendations, task guides, the farm diary, weather and the Farmer Hive. Your programme funds the partner layer, not your members.

Only through a programme those farmers joined and consented to, per field and per season. Area figures — counts, hectares, crop mix, condition and demographics for the areas you are approved for — need no individual consent, and every published area figure stands on at least ten farms.

Apply at divisi.africa/partner/apply/. There is no card and no sales call, but a person at Divisi reads every application — usually within a working day or two — because an approved account reads records that belong to farmers.

The soil, terrain and climate layers underneath are global or continental, so an area anywhere in Sub-Saharan Africa already sits on data that is in place — Kenya, Nigeria, Malawi, Uganda, Zimbabwe and Zambia included. What is added per country is the administrative boundary set, ingested from public datasets on request. Name the country in the first conversation: it has a lead time, and it is cheaper to start before a proposal is written than after.

Tell us what you are trying to see.

Who you are, where you work, and the question you cannot currently answer. A person reads every application — usually within a working day or two.

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