Esther Kumali

Esther Kumali

Social Impact Winner

Esther is a 27-year-old leader and a trailblazer in the Climate Agritech space, the founder, and CEO of Farmer Lifeline Technologies, disrupting Africa’s agricultural sector using AI to end hunger and poverty among marginalized smallholder farming communities in the Global South. Esther set out on the journey of transforming marginalized communities from personal experience, having grown up in a farming community on the famous slopes of the Aberdare mountains and experiencing firsthand poverty and hunger emanating from losses from crop pests and crop diseases.

Armed with a degree in Computer Science and a qualification in Software Engineering, Esther invented a proprietary technological device that utilizes AI and Machine Learning to place marginalized farming communities ahead of crop pests and pathogens/diseases and empower them to take action towards climate change.