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title: "Why WeFarm Shop shut down"
description: "WeFarm Shop, the e-commerce arm of Kenya/Uganda/Tanzania-based peer-to-peer farmer platform WeFarm that let farmers buy agricultural products online, was shut down in July 2022 after roughly a year in operation, with WeFarm's Director of Growth citing difficult market conditions that made the venture hard to scale; the core WeFarm knowledge-sharing platform continued operating."
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# Why WeFarm Shop shut down

WeFarm Shop, the e-commerce arm of Kenya/Uganda/Tanzania-based peer-to-peer farmer platform WeFarm that let farmers buy agricultural products online, was shut down in July 2022 after roughly a year in operation, with WeFarm's Director of Growth citing difficult market conditions that made the venture hard to scale; the core WeFarm knowledge-sharing platform continued operating.

## Breadcrumbs

- [Graveyard](/graveyard)
- [WeFarm Shop](/graveyard/wefarm-shop)

## Summary

Here lies WeFarm Shop. Bolted onto WeFarm's farmer knowledge network, it let smallholders buy agricultural supplies online. About a year in, difficult market conditions made the shop hard to scale, and its owner pulled it. The advice-sharing platform it grew from stayed open.

WeFarm Shop, the e-commerce arm of Kenya/Uganda/Tanzania-based peer-to-peer farmer platform WeFarm that let farmers buy agricultural products online, was shut down in July 2022 after roughly a year in operation, with WeFarm's Director of Growth citing difficult market conditions that made the venture hard to scale; the core WeFarm knowledge-sharing platform continued operating.

## Product history

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Fate | Sunset |
| Primary cause | BusinessModel |
| Stage at shutdown | Series A |
| Lifespan in days | 3103 |

## Autopsy report

## What the product attempted

WeFarm Shop was an e-commerce feature added to WeFarm's peer-to-peer farmer knowledge platform, letting smallholder farmers in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania buy agricultural products online alongside sharing farming advice.

## What worked

WeFarm, the parent platform (founded 2014), had previously raised Series A funding and grown a large peer-to-peer farmer knowledge network; the Shop feature launched and ran for about a year before being discontinued, while the core knowledge-sharing platform remained live after the Shop closed.

## What happened

About nine months to a year after launch, WeFarm announced in July 2022 that it was closing the Shop feature, with Director of Growth Sofie Mala stating that 'current market conditions make this avenue a difficult one [to] set up and to scale,' while continuing to operate its core advice-sharing platform.

## Sources

- [Agritech Start-up, WeFarm Shop Closes Down](https://cioafrica.co/agritech-start-up-wefarm-shop-closes-down?ref=startupgraveyard.africa): CIO Africa
- [WeFarm's Social Network Shutdown: The Challenge of Monetizing Farmer Peer Support](https://agrisnip.com/wefarm/): Agrisnip
- [WeFarm's 'Quora for farmers' scales up in Africa with $1.6M from LocalGlobe](https://techcrunch.com/?p=1417001): TechCrunch

## Related pages

- [WeFarm Shop alternatives](/wefarm-shop/alternatives)
- [Liners Graveyard](/graveyard)

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