Emmyogiri/farmove

Building the coordination infrastructure for agricultural movement across Africa. # 🚜 Farmove: AI-Powered Agricultural Logistics Coordination > **Seeking founding contributors in software engineering, logistics, agriculture, AI, product design, and research.** --- Farmove is an open-source, AI-powered agricultural logistics coordination platform built to solve transport failures across Africa, starting with Nigeria. Our mission is to help farmers secure reliable transport, reduce post-harvest losses, coordinate cargo movement, and eventually connect smallholders to storage, finance, weather intelligence, and buyers. --- ## 📌 What is Farmove? Farmove is a digital marketplace and coordination protocol that bridges the gap between rural farmers and truck drivers. Unlike standard commercial logistics applications, Farmove is designed from the ground up for the realities of emerging agricultural markets: * **Dual-Channel Connectivity**: Accessible via high-bandwidth mobile apps (Flutter) and low-bandwidth/offline protocols (USSD via Africa's Talking). * **Intelligent Matching & Security**: Cloud functions coordinate matches based on proximity, cargo compatibility, and real-time security routing alerts. * **Cost Optimization**: Built-in support for dynamic cost-sharing, enabling smallholders to group neighboring payloads to negotiate fair transport pricing. --- ## ⚠️ The Problem Agricultural logistics in sub-Saharan Africa suffers from structural coordination failures that harm both producers and consumers: * **Agricultural Logistics Inefficiencies**: Farmers struggle to locate transporters during peak harvest periods, leaving crops stranded at the farm gate. * **Post-Harvest Losses (PHL)**: Due to delays in transport matching and lack of cold storage integration, up to **30-40% of agricultural yield** spoils before reaching urban markets. * **Empty Return Trips**: Transporters carrying goods from rural areas to urban hubs often return empty because they lack visibility into return cargo, effectively doubling their operating c …