Revolutionizing Agriculture Through Innovation & Transparency
Founded with the mission to empower farmers and build a resilient, equitable food system, Alma combines innovative financial technology with cutting-edge environmental science.
Transforming Agriculture at the Root
We believe that transforming agriculture begins at the root — by making climate-smart farming accessible, transparent, and profitable for all stakeholders, especially smallholder farmers.
Our platform integrates remote sensing, geospatial analysis, and impact-driven financing to ensure that agriculture can thrive under changing environmental and economic conditions.
Climate-Smart
Sustainable farming
Transparent
Open data systems
Inclusive
Empowering farmers
Impactful
Measurable results
Founder CEO : Shakil Ahmed Tanvir
With over two decades of entrepreneurial experience across agriculture, trade, and technology, Shakil Ahmed is building Alma Harvest, the world’s first traceable agri-finance system — making every loan, grant, and insurance payout traceable from orbit to field.
Shakil’s journey began with a vision to make agriculture fair and transparent. He pioneered Bangladesh’s first yellow maize exports and cashew processing industry, later founding Grace Commodities, which grew across East Africa and Asia. These experiences revealed the deep inefficiencies in agri-finance and inspired Alma’s mission — to connect farmers, banks, insurers, and governments through verified, data-driven trust.
A graduate in Computer Science, his early thesis on remote sensing and crop monitoring — co-authored with Dr. Yann Chemin — became the scientific foundation of Alma’s technology two decades later.
In 2023, his model for traceable agricultural finance was validated at the UN FAO World Food Forum, and in 2025 Alma is soft-launching across pilot countries under the FAO Hand-in-Hand Investment Forum framework, engaging ministries, banks, and DFIs to co-design national rollouts.
Over the years, Shakil has received global recognition for his leadership in sustainable innovation — including as IIX PitchFest Finalist (2022), WFP Food Frontier Runner-Up (2021), and Green Inclusive Business Champion (Bangladesh Bank, 2021).
He continues to champion the idea that agriculture isn’t fair — but with technology, finance, and policy, it can be.
Chief Scientific Advisor: Dr. Yann H. Chemin
Dr. Yann H. Chemin is a remote-sensing scientist and systems architect with over 25 years of experience across Europe, Asia, and Africa. His work has advanced the global use of satellite data for crop forecasting, water management, and climate-risk modeling.
A former Scientific Officer at the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC), Dr. Chemin led the EU’s monthly crop-forecasting bulletin and represented Europe at G20 AMIS sessions. Earlier, with the World Bank’s GFDRR Challenge Fund, he developed open-source flood-early-warning and community weather-station systems now used across South Asia.
Dr. Chemin has also held senior research roles at the International Water Management Institute, the International Rice Research Institute, and Charles Sturt University, contributing to landmark advances in evapotranspiration modeling and agricultural hydrology.
His collaboration with Shakil Ahmed dates back to their 2006 research on satellite-based crop monitoring and genetic-algorithm yield modeling, a study that laid the foundation for Alma’s science of traceable, data-driven agri-finance.
At Alma Harvest, Dr. Chemin ensures scientific rigor, transparency, and calibration within the Alma4Cast.ai and satellite-analytics systems — transforming decades of earth-observation expertise into actionable intelligence for finance, insurance, and food-security decisions.
A World Where Farmers Are Climate Heroes
We envision a world where farmers are climate heroes, agriculture is transparent, and food systems are both profitable and sustainable. By bridging the gap between science, finance, and grassroots agriculture, Alma is charting a path to a resilient future — one harvest at a time.
Climate Heroes
Empowering farmers as environmental stewards
Transparent Systems
Open, traceable agricultural finance
Sustainable Future
Profitable and resilient food systems
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