WARC’s experience over the last decade demonstrates the opportunity to increase yields by switching to technologically-appropriate, no-till farming which minimises synthetic inputs, eliminates slash and burn and focuses on soil management. With the right setup and value chain access, rural subsistence farmers have the potential and community influence that is needed to lead Africa’s farming practices towards a more regenerative future.

In 2011, WARC’s Argentinian founders, Emiliano Mroue and Jorge Lopez Menendez, already specialised in no-till techniques prevalent in their home country, relocated to Sierra Leone. They were motivated both by a vision of the wealth that could be created in West African farming communities and sustainability potential of the region’s agriculture. There, they set about developing a farming service model to move subsistence farming communities out of poverty, and go beyond sustainability to being truly regenerative.