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Mendroot

Regenerative food that pays farmers to rebuild their soil · Accra, Ghana · Social enterprise

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A story from a cocoa and cassava farm in the Ashanti Region

When the chef said my tomatoes tasted different, I finally believed the soil had changed.

Mendroot works with 1,200 smallholder farms in Ghana moving to regenerative practice, and finds the buyers who pay more for what healthier soil grows.

Founded
2020
With 40 farms around Kumasi
Team
40 people
plus 1,200 partner farms
Offices
Accra
Field base in Kumasi
Organisation
Social enterprise
Funded by produce sales
Land
18k hectares
in transition today

Our mission

Farmers can’t afford to fix their soil until the market pays for it.

Cover crops, no-till and compost make soil healthier, but in the first three years yields can dip, and nobody pays extra for the harvest.

Mendroot closes that gap. We measure what the soil gains, prove it on the plate with chefs and buyers, and pass the premium back to the farms. Every role we hire for makes one of those steps more convincing.

  • 01 · Restore

    Soil that comes back

    Partner farms switch to cover crops, no-till and compost, with an agronomist on call through the change.

  • 02 · Measure

    Evidence behind every claim

    Our lab tests soil carbon and microbial life on every field, every season.

  • 03 · Pay

    A price that rewards the soil

    Chefs and buyers pay a premium for graded harvests, and the farms that grew them get it.

Open roles · 2

Mendroot is hiring people who can prove the soil changed

  • Mendroot · Mid-level

    Soil Sommelier

    Prove, plate by plate, that healthier soil grows food that tastes better, and turn it into a grade restaurants pay a premium for.

    Accra, GH$55,000 – $70,000

  • Mendroot · Mid-level

    Farmgate Economist

    Design the payments that carry 1,200 farms through the lean years of regenerative practice, paid by mobile money against future premiums.

    Kumasi, GH (hybrid)$50,000 – $65,000

None of these fit you?

New roles appear here as they open.

The people at Mendroot

40 people in Accra and Kumasi, working with 1,200 farms across Ghana.

  • Amaka Obi

    Head of agronomy

    Ask her which field changed her mind about no-till.

  • Joel Kariuki

    Soil lab lead

    Ask him why he runs every sample four times.

  • Sefa Boateng

    Chef partnerships

    Ask him which kitchen in Osu is the hardest to impress.

  • Esi Mensah

    Co-op finance lead

    Ask her how a co-op agrees on a price.

Not sure which role is yours? Talk to Sefa for 15 minutes.

No CV needed. Ask about the farms, the kitchens, or what harvest season is like.