About
S4S Technologies equips smallholder women farmers in India with solar-powered conduction dryers and food processing tools, enabling them to preserve surplus crops on-site.
S4S connects farmers directly to commercial buyers, ensuring fair profits and creating nutrient-dense, preservative-free food products with a low carbon footprint. , these farmers save resources and increase their income by 9–15%.
Project Focus
Shell Foundation is supporting S4S to help these women farmers strengthen their businesses with reduced losses and market linkages and establish others as micro-entrepreneurs able to run the dehydrators as standalone enterprises. S4S Technologies won the 2023 Earthshot Prize.
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FCDO
Fostering Innovation
Micro-Entrepreneurs
East Africa
West Africa
Cold Storage
Building climate change resilience: The impact of cold chain adoption for Lake Turkana’s fishers
Cold chain adoption helps Lake Turkana fishers reduce spoilage, increase incomes, and build resilience to climate change.
09th December 2025
FCDO
Micro-Entrepreneurs
Smallholder Farmers
East Africa
Southeast Asia
Cold Storage
Post-Harvest Processing
Lessons learned from addressing the sustainable cooling challenge
For smallholder farmers and microentrepreneurs in Sub-Saharan Africa and India, access to affordable, energy-efficient cooling can mean the difference between…
01st August 2025