Green Means Go
Life Cycle Assessment built for African food systems, helping farms and processors measure impact and reach global markets.
About
Green Means Go is a Life Cycle Assessment platform built for the African agri-food value chain. It helps smallholder and commercial farms, processors, and exporters understand the environmental footprint of their operations, and use that evidence to reach global markets that increasingly require verified sustainability data.
The platform launches with country-specific support for Ghana and Nigeria, with expansion planned across the continent. Farm assessments complete in 15–20 minutes and processing assessments in 10–15 minutes, producing ISO 14040/14044-compliant results that align with EU CBAM, EUDR, and AfCFTA requirements.
Key Features
- 8 midpoint impact categories (climate, water, land, biodiversity, and more)
- 3 endpoint categories (human health, ecosystem quality, resource scarcity)
- Farm-level assessments for cropping, soil, water, pest, and energy management
- Processing facility assessments for energy, water, waste, and emissions
- Country-specific impact factors with global fallbacks
- Data quality scoring and regional benchmarking
- Supports 9+ food categories and multiple facility types
- Rust core delivers sub-100 ms calculations
- Designed for EU CBAM, EUDR compliance, and AfCFTA alignment
Methodology
Life Cycle Assessment
Assessments follow the ISO 14040 and ISO 14044 standards. Results are reported across eight midpoint impact categories (including climate in kg CO₂-equivalent, water use in m³, land use in m²-years, and biodiversity) and three endpoint categories: human health, ecosystem quality, and resource scarcity.
Africa-Specific Data
Country-specific emission and resource factors are used wherever available, with transparent fallbacks to global datasets so users always get a result. Data-quality scoring surfaces how confident the assessment is and which inputs to improve next.
Three-Tier Architecture
A Next.js frontend drives a FastAPI gateway that delegates calculations to a Rust core. The stateless API design supports horizontal scaling, and the Rust engine delivers sub-100 ms per-calculation performance even on complex farm or facility assessments.
Who It's For
- Smallholder and family farms
- Commercial farms and agricultural cooperatives
- Food processing facilities and manufacturers
- Food distributors and exporters
- Certification bodies and policymakers
Platform Details
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