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CANWYF is a Nigerian NGO building iTONA AFRICA — a community-owned programme that enrolls, verifies, and connects smallholder farmers to markets, insurance, and institutional funding. Starting in Ekiti State. Designed to scale across West Africa.
Nigeria's 35 million smallholder farmers produce the majority of the nation's food, yet they remain structurally excluded from the formal economy. Without a verified identity, transaction history, or documented land use, they cannot access credit, qualify for insurance, or sell at fair prices to institutional buyers.
The result is a cycle of income instability, post-harvest losses, and dependence on exploitative middlemen — while Nigeria's food system remains fragile and poorly documented. Existing data on farmer productivity is largely estimated, not verified.
Read Our Full Case →We combine community governance, field verification, and a mobile platform to create the first farmer identity system backed by traditional authority. No ghost farmers. No estimated data. No middlemen between the farmer and the buyer.
Verification is not the end goal — it is the gateway to income, food security, land rights, and climate resilience. Each farmer enrolled represents a measurable shift in economic outcomes at the household and community level.
We are in the pilot phase. Every contribution directly scales the number of farmers enrolled, verified, and connected to markets. No estimates — every farmer you fund can be verified at canwyf.org/verify.
CANWYF is at the beginning of something significant. The pilot is live. The model is proven at small scale. We are looking for partners, donors, and investors who understand that the most powerful infrastructure Africa can build is a trustworthy identity for its farmers.
