Fusing her actuarial science background with an entrepreneurial spirit, 28-year-old Leonida Mutuku is reinventing the face of agriculture in Kenya, one farmer at a time.

Mutuku’s company is the Nairobi-based Intelipro, which is described as ‘a boutique data-science consultancy’. The company is two years old, and has rolled out its eGranary platform for the East African Farmers Federation, which represents about 20 million farmers in the region. Through the platform, farmers log the metrics of the production on their farm, such as the number of seeds planted, how much fertiliser has been used, or how much they’ve paid their workers.