Transformative Value
Chains Development and Education
The 2025 PFL builds upon a successful pilot composed of DeKUT and MIT students and faculty in January 2024. Entitled “Calabashing: Innovating with Gourds,” it focused on one organic material—the gourd, an icon of African culture as a lens into innovation.
The PFL has two tracks or intakes: the field class in January and the internship between June and August.
🇿🇼 Detecting and mapping groundwater hydrology for borehole drilling
🇿🇼 Design + implement grass and tree seedling projects for zero-grazing/thatching and reforstration and decarbonization
🇰🇪 Design + build modernised Indigenous buildings using wooden poles, grass, and selected soils
🇰🇪 Design and deploy devices to deter monkeys from invading farms bordering conservancies
🇿🇼 Design + Fabricate Molds for Making Concrete Fencing Posts as an Antidote Against Fencing Induced Deforestation
🇰🇪 Establishment of a hatchery for the African lungfish and other indigenous fish to enable its introduction in commercial aquaculture and repopulation
🇰🇪 Research, develop, and implement solution to the Golden Apple Snail which decimate rice seedlings, forming farmers to replant
🇳🇦 🇿🇼 Establishment of aquaponics (integrated multitrophic aquaculture) as a sustainable food production system in desert/drought-prone environments
🇿🇼 Design a business model for and launch cooking oil venture, targeting locally produced ground nuts and sunflower
🇿🇼 Design a business model for and launch a carpentry + welding venture that designs and makes beehives, box-bailers, chick- and fish-cages, and other farm essentials
🇰🇪 Make a low-cost fish feed machine
🇰🇪 Making + installing an automated fish feeding mechanism to control fish overfeeding and underfeeding
🇰🇪 Design + build fish rearing pond with a greenhouse cover
🇰🇪 Develop + deploy IoT device to measure and subsequently enable control or intervention of pond water parameters
🇰🇪 Design + develop auxiliary systems for large-scale water recirculation and cleaning in fish rearing ponds
🇿🇼 Venture to train, supply, + manage staff to run projects and maintain homes of diaspora-based citizens
🇰🇪 Design + build fish rearing pond with a greenhouse cover
🇰🇪 Design and make a simple and low-cost furnace for recycled metal casting
🇰🇪 Design + develop shoe sole molding machine
🇰🇪 Design a business model for and launch a venture that makes food processing and musical equipment from gourds
🇿🇼 Design a business model for and launch the animal feeds and organic fertilizer pelletizing venture, targeting local crops and farm waste
🇿🇼 Design a business model for and launch the animal feeds and organic fertilizer pelletizing venture, targeting local crops and farm waste
🇿🇼 Venture to train, supply, + manage staff to run projects and maintain homes of diaspora-based citizens
