About
SunCulture is a climate-smart agriculture and productive-use service provider to smallholder farmers, offering solar-water pumps, energy access, and financing in sub-Saharan Africa. SunCulture accelerates farmer access to energy through its innovative business model, which incorporates energy assets with enabling farmer services.
Project Focus
Shell Foundation supports SunCulture to pilot and commercialise their PAYGrow asset financing platform, and develop associated sales process, systems, distribution channels and KPIs.
Most recently Shell Foundation has enabled SunCulture to pilot carbon financing to demonstrate the impact on increased sales through lowering the cost of assets that has confirmed investments by BII and others, and expansion into markets outside of Kenya, including Ethiopia, Zambia, Uganda, and Ivory Coast.
Insights and impact
Latest news and updates
FCDO
Fostering Innovation
Smallholder Farmers
East Africa
Post-Harvest Processing
How solar irrigation is transforming the lives of smallholder farmers in Kenya – lessons and the road ahead
Solar-powered irrigation is helping smallholder farmers in Kenya build resilience to climate shocks, improve nutrition, and reduce post-harvest losses.
28th January 2026
FCDO
Fostering Innovation
Micro-Entrepreneurs
East 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