Brain Trust | Razak - Climatepreneurship

​A Brain Trust is a 1-hour group brainstorming session where experts from the RIVET ecosystem provide feedback and advice on a challenge or initiative that a social innovator is working on.

​Ghanaian Razak Abudi is finding opportunity in the challenges presented by climate change. In northern Ghana, farmers are facing increasingly harsh conditions for their crops due to unpredictable weather and water scarcity. Women, who do much of the agricultural labor, often have the least access to the tools and resources they need to adapt.

​27-year-old Razak developed Climatepreneurship to address these barriers. The project provides women farmers with zero-emission solar-powered water pumps to irrigate crops and organic fertilizer composted locally from farm waste. Farmers are required to plant trees alongside their vegetables, promoting biodiversity and climate resilience through agroforestry.

​Perhaps most innovative is the program’s cooperative economic model: each farmer contributes a small portion of their profits to a group savings fund. At year’s end, they “break the treasure” - dividing the fund or providing microloans to those in urgent need.

​With support from RIVET, Razak is now testing this model in communities that need it most. His work is helping women grow better harvests, protect their families’ health, and build more resilient futures.

​Help Razak’s vision take root. With the right tools, entire communities can grow stronger, healthier, and more self-sufficient.