Maryanne Gichanga is a Kenyan agri-technology entrepreneur whose contribution and vision for humanity center on eradicating hunger, alleviating poverty, and promoting climate resilience among smallholder farmers in Africa. Her commitment stems from her personal experience witnessing her family’s farm struggle with soil degradation and erratic weather patterns.Gichanga is the CEO and Co-founder of AgriTech Analytics Ltd, an innovation designed to bring high-tech, data-driven farming techniques to the people who need them most. The company’s core contribution is a powerful system that combines AI-powered satellite data and insights from on-farm, solar-powered IoT sensors. These sensors provide real-time, precise analysis of soil health (NPK, moisture, pH) and rapidly detect up to 63 pests and 51 crop diseases.The innovation delivers actionable advice via mobile phone alerts, effectively digitizing the work of an agronomist for thousands of remote farmers. This precision farming approach has produced dramatic humanitarian results: it has been shown to increase crop yields by over 75% in a year while simultaneously reducing farmers' input costs (like fertilizer and pesticides) by more than 60%.Her vision for humanity is driven by three pillars:Food Security: By making farming more predictable and productive, she empowers the smallholders who produce the majority of Africa’s food, thereby addressing regional hunger.Economic Empowerment: The platform offers a Crop Yield Prediction Tool, which provides farmers with the collateral needed to access vital loans from banks, significantly increasing their financial stability and reducing vulnerability.Environmental Stewardship: By encouraging minimal, targeted use of resources, her technology combats soil degradation and minimizes the agricultural sector's impact on the environment, ensuring long-term sustainable land use.Gichanga’s success, recognized by awards like the Global Citizen Waislitz Disruptor Award, proves that advanced technology, when made affordable and accessible, can be a transformative force for social good, paving the way for a hunger-free and resilient future.