Building Regenerative Value Chains Through Data & Partnership MOTHERLAND × eProd Solutions
At MOTHERLAND, our mission is to regenerate food systems from the ground up—rooted in local farmer agency, ecological resilience, and full-value-chain transparency. Since early 2023, our collaboration with eProd Solutions has played a pivotal role in advancing this vision across Siaya County in Western Kenya.
eProd Solutions is more than a software provider: it is our digital backbone. Its supply-chain management platform, designed specifically for agribusinesses working with thousands of suppliers and smallholder farmers, enables us to trace every step of the value chain: from the planting of seed, through aggregation, processing, sale, to the table. This “seed-to-table” traceability is no longer an abstract concept, but a lived, operational reality.
Working together, we collect and analyse real-time data across multiple dimensions: farmer profiles, input loans, yields, quality grades, training attendance, processing outcomes, sales and repayments. These insights give us clarity: we know where we stand, day by day, and can respond dynamically, in the field, at aggregation points, and at the enterprise level. More than that, we are generating the evidence base funders and markets increasingly look for: clear indicators of improvement in productivity, incomes, post-harvest losses, market access and sustainability.
eProd’s platform is designed around exactly the kinds of challenges we face: managing large numbers of suppliers, establishing transparency and accountability, enabling effective communication between our local impact team and farmers, linking quality-based payment to outcomes, and meeting evolving export and regulatory standards (for example traceability compliance). For us at MOTHERLAND, this means we can move beyond piecemeal interventions to a truly holistic system: where the technology infrastructure enables the human-centred relationships, and the data enables the on-the-ground transformation.
However, this partnership is about much more than the software. From the very beginning, eProd has been a steady, strategic ally. They trained our field team, they adapted the system to our specific context in Siaya County, and they stood by us during every pilot, hiccup and iteration. Their support has enabled our teams to work confidently, knowing the digital backbone will hold up. In particular, our close working relationship with eProd’s co-founder, Almut van Casteren, has been instrumental. Her accessibility, strategic insight and genuine investment in our shared mission have created a partnership built on trust and alignment.
What does this mean in concrete terms for funders and partners considering investment in MOTHERLAND’s model? It means that our interventions are not only grounded in field-work and local relationships, but underpinned by robust digital infrastructure and real-time monitoring. It means that we have visibility into value-chain performance, accountability in farmer outcomes, and the ability to scale with precision. It means that when you invest in MOTHERLAND’s network, you are investing in a model where tech, human capital and local ecosystems come together in synergy. eProd Solutions provides the systemic foundation; MOTHERLAND provides the regenerative logic, the local networks, and the on-the-ground change.
Looking ahead, we are scaling this model across new geographies and crops and eProd remains central to our architecture of growth. Together we are proving that digital infrastructure in agriculture is not a luxury, it is a strategic enabler of equity, resilience and systemic transformation. When farmers are visible, connected, accountable and supported; when value chains are transparent from seed to table; when impact is measurable in real time, then regeneration becomes not a hope, but a delivery.
We invite funders and strategic partners to join us on this journey. If you’re looking to support a model that combines cutting-edge digital supply-chain intelligence, field-tested farmer engagement, and systemic change at scale, MOTHERLAND in collaboration with eProd Solutions offers precisely that. Together, we are not just reducing post-harvest losses; we are redesigning how rural economies operate, how they connect, grow, and prosper.