Satellite-Based Agricultural Risk Profiling in Rwanda (agriRISK)

Smallholder farmers across Rwanda face limited and expensive access to agricultural credit, held back by high transaction costs, fragmented data systems and the absence of an objective, timely view of plot-level agricultural risk. agriRISK addresses this bottleneck. The platform use satellite remote sensing data to produce an objective, repeatable, plot-level risk score for maize and rice across all districts of Rwanda for each of the two main growing seasons. The risk profile is served to participating lenders through the national Credit Market Infrastructure (CMI). What is unique about agriRISK is its end-to-end integration: a wall-to-wall remote-sensing stack and a lender-ready scoring API inside one production platform, co-designed with Rwandan institutions and operated nationally by the Rwanda Space Agency after hand-over.