Building India's only full stack food processing platform.
Customer group:
Smallholder farmer
Region:
Asia
Joint partners with Shell Foundation:
FCDO and DFC
FCDO funding type:
Partner since:
2018
Technology:
Post-harvest processing
Strategic pillar:
Fostering innovation
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
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
FCDO
Gender
Smallholder Farmers
East Africa
Southeast Asia
West Africa
Cold Storage
Post-Harvest Processing
Solutions to Reduce Post-Harvest Loss for Smallholder Farmers
New research highlights the value chains most impacted by post-harvest losses and identifies key areas where innovation is essential to…
30th July 2025