Bridging the agricultural literacy gap with voice-first sovereign AI.
At the Centre for Climate-Smart Agriculture (CCSA), we believe no farmer should lose a crop simply because expert advice was written in a language or format they cannot read.
Born at Cosmopolitan University Abuja
The Centre for Climate-Smart Agriculture (CCSA) was established at Cosmopolitan University Abuja to spearhead applied AI research addressing food security, environmental resilience, and smallholder empowerment across Nigeria and sub-Saharan Africa.
Nigeria is home to over 38 million smallholder farmers who produce more than 80% of the domestic food supply. Yet the extension agent to farmer ratio is approximately 1 to 5,000. Zora is our breakthrough response: an autonomous agronomic helper that speaks fluent Hausa, Yorùbá, Igbo, Nigerian Pidgin, and English.
How Zora Combines Science & Speech
Three complementary research foundations power every piece of guidance Zora speaks.
Voice-First Accessibility
Zero reading and zero typing required. Built specifically for rural dialects with fine-tuned Whisper speech recognition and natural sounding vernacular synthesis.
KGML-Ag Engine
Knowledge-Guided Machine Learning that integrates physical crop models, agro-ecological weather data, and soil chemistry constraints to ensure advice is strictly factual.
Digital MRV & Soil Carbon
Append-only SHA-256 event chains and PostGIS spatial validation certifying regenerative agricultural practices for farmer carbon dividends.
Experience Zora in Action
Test the live multilingual voice assistant right in your browser or explore our technical documentation.