Sunday Pick: Tech Solutions (#1): The affordable tech that will revolutionize farming (with Samir Ibrahim and Josephine Waweru)
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🗓️ 9 November 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
When entrepreneur Samir Ibrahim asked farmers in Kenya what problem they most needed solved, the answer was simple: reliable access to water to irrigate their farms year-round. Samir is the CEO of SunCulture, a company replacing diesel- and petrol-powered water pumps with more affordable solar-powered ones. He sits down with Sherrell Dorsey, host of the “TED Tech” podcast, to discuss how he continues to innovate his product to serve smallholder farmers. Later, Sherrell chats with coffee farmer Josephine Waweru about how SunCulture’s pump revolutionized her farm and the advice she has for young people to succeed.
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| 0:00.0 | Happy Sunday TED Talks Daily listeners. I'm Elise Hugh. Today we have an episode of another podcast from the TED Audio Collective handpicked by us for you. |
| 0:15.9 | Ted Tech's host, Cheryl Dorsey, went to Kenya back in June to record a mini-series with TED Countdown Summit |
| 0:21.9 | 2025 speakers about how technology can help to generate a greener and more equitable future. |
| 0:28.4 | In today's kickoff episode, we start with a simple question, what do farmers in Kenya actually |
| 0:33.6 | need? Shirel spoke with Samir Ibrahim, the CEO of Sun Culture, a company that's replacing |
| 0:39.4 | diesel and petrol-powered water pumps with more affordable solar-powered ones, to give farmers |
| 0:44.3 | reliable access to water to irrigate their farms year-round. We'll also hear from coffee farmer |
| 0:50.1 | Josephine Wawaru, who joined Chorrell to discuss how the pump revolutionized her farm and what |
| 0:56.1 | advice she has for young people. Ted Tech is a show that features talks and conversations that |
| 1:01.2 | explore the many ways in which technology impacts society. If you want to hear more insights like this, |
| 1:06.8 | listen to TED Tech wherever you get your shows. Learn more about the TED Audio Collective at |
| 1:11.8 | AudioCollective.tend.com. Now on to the episode. |
| 1:18.7 | Welcome to TED Tech, a podcast from TED. I'm your host, Shirel Dorsey. Today, we're kicking |
| 1:30.5 | off a special mini-series about climate solutions and the technology that can lead us into a greener, |
| 1:37.4 | more equitable future. The climate crisis feels more urgent than ever, and I'm not the only |
| 1:43.8 | person saying that. Many in |
| 1:46.2 | the international climate community define this time we're living in as the deciding decade, |
| 1:52.0 | our last chance to get it right for the future of our planet and humanity. As we consider |
| 2:00.3 | possible pathways forward, I often ask myself, |
| 2:04.3 | what bold ideas about climate can give us hope? |
| 2:08.1 | What conversations aren't we having that we should? |
| 2:11.8 | And where have we limited our thinking about what's possible for our planet and our future. |
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