The AIMS-NEI (MS4CR) is an important instrument to build Africa’s capacity to quantify climate risk, understand its impacts on development and help transform entire economic sectors. At Manobi Africa and with our strategic partners ICRISAT and CCAFS, MS4CR interns engage in the development of innovative agCelerant products and services to de-risk investments in smallholder agriculture through improved yield forecasts, credit risk scores, reduced basis risk and cost of financing. We look forward to welcoming more AIMS-NEI alumni yet to also address urgent and growing challenges in the water sector with UtilitY85, and to demonstrate the value of embedding artificial intelligence, machine learning and advanced computational skills in a bottom-up, demand-driven approach led by the African private sector

My time at Manobi represents a highlight and defining moment in my professional development. Manobi offered me an international working environment to work with top professionals to device efficient and suitable solutions for the African continent. Also, I significantly improved my french speaking skills within this period. Thank you for the oppportunity !!

I would like to express my gratitude to Manobi Africa for the opportunity given to me to be an intern in their AI department. It was a great pleasure working with the team at Manobi Africa on key challenges facing the small scale farmers and finding solutions to mitigate the level of financial losses incurred in the course of their production. In course of my internship at Manobi, I was exposed to different tasks in modelling basis risk in small scale farming and also finding ways of designing crop insurance policy to alleviate the level of losses in small scale farming. I believe with this experience gained, it will a long way to improve my skills and abilities to become a machine learning engineer and researcher in the near future.