About

Born from the Sahel, built for Sahel realities.

Yaleh was born from a simple conviction: smallholder farmers deserve useful, localized, and understandable agricultural advisories in the face of increasingly uncertain seasons.

Our mission

Reduce agricultural risk for smallholder farmers in the Sahel

By turning complex signals into simple, responsible, and field-adapted advisories.

Why the Sahel first

A region where decisions are most exposed to climate uncertainty

The Sahel is one of the regions where agricultural decisions are most exposed to climate uncertainty. Farmers often have to decide when to plant with limited localized information. Yaleh starts with Chad and Northern Cameroon to build a solution adapted to Sahelian and Sudanian farming realities.

The three pillars

What Yaleh is made of

1

Climate and agricultural intelligence

Read signals that matter for agricultural decisions.

2

Local knowledge

Adapt advisories to crops, languages, calendars, and field realities.

3

Simple delivery

Deliver advisories through accessible channels such as WhatsApp and, depending on partners, SMS or field reports.

Founder

Adji Zamtato

Yaleh is led by Adji Zamtato, who is from Chad. His background brings together agricultural sciences, economics, and risk management. A Fulbright Fellow, he carries out his research at Kansas State University, within the Risk Management Center. Yaleh was born from that intersection: analytical rigor, knowledge of Sahelian field realities, and the ambition to make agricultural information genuinely useful for farmers.

Limits

What Yaleh does not do

Posture

Yaleh does not replace agronomists, agricultural advisors, or farmer experience. Yaleh provides decision support based on available information, to be combined with local observation and agricultural services.

Let's build a Yaleh pilot for the 2026 season.