Calvin-Rondozai/Agri-Link

AgriLink Africa is a smart agri-logistics platform that connects farmers, buyers, transporters, and service providers. It provides a single digital pipeline that gives farmers live market prices, weather-safety alerts, and automated transport matching reducing post-harvest losses and increasing farmer income. # AgriLink Africa **Smart digital logistics connecting farmers, buyers, and transporters across sub-Saharan Africa.** Built by **Calvin Rondozai**. agrilink-5w5c.onrender.com --- ## Problem Statement Agriculture is the economic backbone of sub-Saharan Africa, yet smallholder farmers remain isolated from high-value commercial markets by broken logistics, poor rural roads, and fragmented, informal coordination (WhatsApp groups, physical notice boards). Without real-time pricing information, farmers sell blind — leading to post-harvest losses, drained incomes, and worsened food security. Existing alternatives are either unreliable (informal networks with no transport coordination) or inaccessible (traditional corporate logistics priced for large-scale contracts, out of reach for smallholders). ## Solution AgriLink Africa is a digital pipeline that automates the link between **harvest readiness, weather safety, and market pricing**, turning a stressful guessing game into a predictable, data-backed shipping routine — through three core engines: 1. **Live Market Index** — real-time crop pricing across regional markets, so farmers always sell with maximum seller power. 2. **Climate Alert System** — proactive weather forecasts and early warnings that protect harvest timing and dispatch safety. 3. **Freight Dispatch & GIS Routing** — GPS-based matching between farmers and nearby transporters, with live, fuel-efficient route calculation. Supporting all three: **offline-first sync**, so the app keeps working in low-connectivity rural areas and syncs automatically once a connection returns, and a **real-time chat system** so farmers, buyers, and transporters can coordinate directly once a dispatch or order is underway. ## Key Features - Role-based accounts and dashboards for **Farmers**, **Buyers**, and **Transporters** - Live market price index with search/filter - Weather/climate alert banners by region and severity - Farmer transport requests, matched to …