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Food System Value Analytics

Offline-first survey and analytics platform for food-system research — design studies, collect on tablets without connectivity, sync cleanly, then run statistics in one tool.

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Field researcher capturing survey data on a tablet in an agricultural field
The brief

Challenge

Field surveys break when connectivity does. Research teams needed offline capture, GPS and image questions, and analytics without stitching three separate tools.

The build

Approach

A React Native field client with background sync and conflict resolution, plus a FastAPI analytics microservice for descriptive, inferential, and qualitative analysis.

Capacités

What it does

  • Offline-first tablet capture with background sync
  • 12+ question types including GPS and images
  • Drag-and-drop form builder with conditional logic
  • Built-in analytics microservice

Research Tool · Data Collection · Value Chain Analysis

Attribution

Built by the founder

Engineered by Emmanuel Amankrah Kwofie, founder and CTO of Vinerals Technologies, at SASEL Lab, McGill University, with academic and industry partners across Canada, Europe, and Africa.

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