Divisi
Divisi for Government
The district report arrives
after the window closes.
Ward and district crop condition, built from real fields and grouped by your own official boundaries. The agronomy your officers cannot carry to every farmer is already on the phones of those who use it. Free, permanently.
Answering for wards the reporting line will not reach before the window closes? Applying is free, and a person reads it within a working day or two.
By the time a paper return has climbed from ward to district to province, the planting window it describes has closed and the officers you might have redeployed have spent the month. The food-security response then begins after the shortfall it was meant to prevent.
a look inside
Your areas, shaded by what is actually in the ground
No field is drawn and nobody is named. Where an area holds fewer than ten farms it merges into its parent and is republished at that level, so the map stays honest and never goes blank.
The aggregate view at ward resolution, with the demographic split beside it. Illustration — the layout, colours and figures a partner account shows, drawn rather than sampled, because a real cohort belongs to the farmers in it.
the ground you are standing on
Two numbers, neither of them ours
Farmers per extension officer in Malawi — roughly eight times the ceiling the FAO recommends. A caseload at that ratio cannot be served by visiting, which is an argument about arithmetic rather than effort.
FAOThe share of Sub-Saharan Africa's food calories grown on farms under five hectares — the constituency a national assessment most needs to see and can least easily count.
Samberg et al., 2016
The extension content is already in their hand, free
The reason a coarse map is worth reading is that something can be done about what it shows. Every farmer on Divisi gets the same thing, enrolled in a programme or not: crop suitability for their own field, a planting window, the job due this week and the reason behind it. They also get the pests to scout for at this stage, and weather that names the risk rather than reciting numbers. None of it sits behind a subscription, and none of it needs your officers to deliver it.
Browse the free crop and pest guides →See it on your own phone → One link, both stores — it opens the right one for your device.
impact, and the balance sheet
The pressures already on your desk
Drought response, food-security planning, youth employment and reporting upward are four questions that all want the same thing: a current picture of what is in the ground, by ward.
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Drought and disaster response
Relief and seed go where the season is failing while there is still a season to save, rather than after an assessment confirms what a ward already knew.
How Ward-level condition against projection, refreshed weekly, alongside a three-month seasonal anomaly outlook from the North American Multi-Model Ensemble.
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Scouting that reaches every farmer, not every visitor
When a threat is circulating, the advisory reaches phones in the ward the same week, without an officer having to carry it there. What the dashboard shows you is condition and its cause; the outbreak reporting itself still runs through your own channels.
How Every farmer on Divisi gets the pests and diseases that threaten their crop at its current stage, with what each looks like and what to do — free, in their language, whether or not they are in any programme.
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Youth in agriculture, measurable
A youth programme can be targeted at the wards where young farmers actually are, and reported on without commissioning a survey to find them.
How The under-35 share per ward and district, on the definition national policy already uses, suppressed wherever a cell holds fewer than ten farms.
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Food-security planning, weeks earlier
Provisional balance-sheet inputs while the window is open, to sit alongside the crop assessment rather than wait for it.
How Planted against not planted, hectares, crop mix and condition per administrative area, grouped by the boundaries your own statistics use.
How this maps to the Sustainable Development Goals — read the alignment →
What a ministry actually gets
Your boundaries, not ours
Areas come from geoBoundaries and, where you want your own official set, the OCHA Common Operational Datasets that national mapping and statistics agencies publish. Every boundary carries its source and vintage, so a figure can say which version of a re-warded district it was computed against and reconcile against your own statistics.
No farmer is ever named
Public bodies are served aggregates and only aggregates. Verification buys resolution — province and district first, ward totals after a person has checked who you are and which area your mandate covers. It never buys identity: seeing an individual field requires that farmer's own consent, which no amount of institutional trust substitutes for.
A map that is never blank
Every published figure stands on at least ten farms. Where a ward is too thin for that, it merges into its district and is retested, and the district into the province — so a sparse area shows an honest coarser number instead of a hole, and sharpens by itself as coverage grows. Nothing to configure, no threshold anyone has to lower.
The splits your reporting already asks for
Crop mix, planted against not planted, hectares, condition against projection, and the demographic breakdown by age band — including farmers under 35, the definition of a youth farmer used across the AU and most national agricultural policies, so a youth target reads straight off rather than being derived.
How a public body comes on
Apply and name your mandate area
The form asks who you are and which area your mandate covers. A person reads it — usually within a working day or two — and verification is what lifts an account from district totals to ward totals.
Your area, chosen rather than drawn
Pick the district or province from the administrative tree and the figures group by the boundary your own statistics use. Catchments and project areas that follow no official line can be drawn or uploaded as a shapefile.
Read the map, weekly
Which areas planted outside the window, where weather has moved the outlook, where condition is falling against projection. The unit of action is a ward, and the output is where to send officers this week.
Push agronomy back down it
Every farmer in that ward already has the crop guides, task timings and pest scouting in their own language on their own phone, free. Extension capacity you did not have to hire.
what your account shows
Resolution follows the relationship
Your account reads area figures across the region it is approved for. Where you run a programme farmers join, those fields resolve individually as well.
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.
What it costs a public body
Free to public bodies, permanently
Ministries, public extension services, councils and parastatals: the map, the ward and district rollups, the demographic splits and the GeoJSON, with no seat limit and no expiry.
A commercial decision, not a discount
An extension service telling farmers to use Divisi is worth more to us than any licence fee it would ever pay, and we would rather book it as what it is.
What is quoted for is people's time
Training your officers, and running a farmer-facing campaign around a national programme — a conservation agriculture scheme, an input subsidy, a seasonal advisory push — where the work is enrolment, translation, materials and support rather than software. Once-off or seasonal, and a line you can put through procurement.
What you can count on
This is a current picture, refreshed every week, of the farmers in your area who chose to use Divisi — which is why it costs the state nothing and why it reaches you while the window is still open. It sits alongside your crop assessment rather than in place of it: the assessment gives you the frame and the authority, and this gives you the timing. Between a figure that is exact in June and one that is directional in December, the second is the one you can still act on.
Questions worth asking
not quite you?
Same platform, different job
Plenty of organisations are two of these at once. The access model is identical; what changes is what the figures are for.
Start with the map, not the contract.
Tell us who you are, where you work and what you are trying to see. We read every application ourselves and scope the rollout with you.
Ministries of agriculture, national and provincial extension services, district and rural councils, parastatals, marketing boards, disaster management and early-warning units.
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