About us
Team
Inspired by Dr Trevan Flynn's first dog Rafiki "friend", Rafikisol was developed from a passion for animals to be friendly to the environment and humanity. We are a group of scientists from many disciplines that work together to bring meaningful information. Since we are diverse in both discpline and culture, we make maps suitable for many purposes.
Objectives
Bring the latest and advanced environmental and agriculture techniques to everyone and spread our knowledge to others. We never give out private data, however, our projects are always freely available and meant to be shared. All of our data comes with accuracy and uncertainty analysis, this is important to know how valid the product you get is.
Collaboration
We are willing and want to collaborate with others. Whether it is collaborating to publish meaningful scientific papers or helping with ones business we are always keen to collaborate. We are interested in environmental sciences, social sciences and of course, soil and plant sciences.
Dr. Trevan Flynn speaking about farm-scale soil while in Brazil.
A farm we worked with near Mzuzu, Malawi.
We work with everyone from soil chemists in Brazil to crop scientists in France.
Sitting in on a lecture from Dr. Chris Pannet at the Zambian Institute of Agriculture who we are fortunate enough to partner with.
Degraded soils from high levels of Mg and over grazing (southern Zambia).
Huge storm while working in Kruger National Park, South Africa.
Working in the field can be dangerous (Black Mamba).
Ten metre root looking for water in an arid and degraded environment.
Dr. Trevan Flynn working in an Oxisol in the Eastern Cape, South Africa.
We literally work with everyone. This was an agroforestry project in Southern Germany with people from all over Europe.
Apple orchard for juice and the farmers favorite toy, an automatic harvester.
Reduction from plant roots removing the Iron.