saharmohyuddin000/CRAIS-Botswana

Climate Resilience & Agri-Intelligence System for women and youth farmers in Botswana # CRAIS – Climate Resilience & Agri-Intelligence System Note: All farmer data in this prototype is synthetic, generated for platform demonstration and development purposes only. No real farmer data has been collected at this stage ### Botswana Pilot | Phase 1 | South East/Kgatleng & Chobe/Ngamiland East Corridors ## Overview CRAIS is an open-source climate-smart agri-intelligence system designed for women and youth smallholder farmers in Botswana. It integrates farm data capture, climate risk advisory, yield tracking, and financial resilience scoring into a single accessible platform. ## Problem Women and youth smallholder farmers in Botswana face converging challenges: - No access to localised climate intelligence - No visibility into harvest yield or income projections - No pathway to climate-linked financial products - Structural exclusion from markets and cooperatives ## Solution CRAIS provides: - **Farm Data Capture** – farmer registry with crop, location, and seasonal data - **Climate Risk Advisory** – automated risk scoring (Low/Medium/High) per farmer - **Yield & Income Tracking** – estimated harvest and annual income per farm - **Financial Resilience Scoring** – loan repayment capacity linked to farm output - **Live Impact Dashboard** – real-time funder and programme dashboard ## Live Prototype Dashboard: airtable.com ## Pilot Data (Phase 1 – 9 farmers) - Total farm area: 14.6 hectares - Crops: Maize, Sorghum, Tomato, Cabbage, Pepper - Gender: 6 women, 3 men - Age groups: Youth (18-35) and Adult (36+) - Climate risk distribution: Low, Medium, High - Corridor: South East/Kgatleng ## Target Scale - 500 farmers across 2 corridors by end of Year 1 - SMS and USSD advisory integration in Year 1 - Open-source release of full codebase in Q4 Year 1 ## Technology - Data platform: Airtable (prototype) - Advisory engine: Rules-based climate risk scoring - Dashboard: Airtable Interfaces - Planned: Python/AI integration …