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Hurukuro IDE graduation assignment - One pager 1) Brief description of company and current status Hurukuro (www.hurukuro.com and https://www.f6s.com/hurukuro) is a company that was founded in early 2014, with the objective of creating an agricultural digital value chain for farmers in order to boost agricultural activity and livelihood of rural populations in Africa. In 2014 we were the technical partners for a national portal that was built to assist agricultural extension workers with access to information. This was a multimillion Euro project and includes several NGOs and the Ministry of Agriculture. We have since started working on a project with 6300 female rural farmers. We have an SMS solution that offers agronomic advice, weather info and market prices. We have sealed a deal with the largest tomato processing company in Zimbabwe which has a capacity of handling 90 000 tons of tomatoes per day. We are also on track to launch a mobisite by soon. We also have several partners for our social impact initiatives including NGO Empowerment works and a franchise from German social enterprise Benergy. 2) The design challenge in product a/o business model terms The challenge is this; in Zimbabwe and in Africa, there is a massive of fresh produce being either damaged or lost in transit. In fact in some cases it is estimated to be as high as 25 to 40% according to FAO. This has led to a situation where farmers have lost revenue in terms of produce sales and also the opportunity cost of inputs and labour wasted by farmers in growing the crops. The challenge is to develop and design an uber style solution with a specialized container that can avoid damage and losses in transit for produce. This is the main project we would want to collaborate on. 3) Potential use of CVD (Context Variation by Design); to be used if necessary CVD would be used to assist us in identifying an ideal solution to this challenge and assisting in developing that solution for multiple settings without multiple redesign. 4) Practicalities (period, location etc) We would like the research period to be around April 2017, as we believe that would be the ideal time to host a graduate as this is the normal harvest season for horticultural produce for farmers. Locations to be discussed. Interested? Contact JC ([email protected]) Diehl ([email protected]) or Wouter Kersten