Forestry farm landscape in Iringa

About us

Digital tools for the people who steward Tanzania's forests.

Msitu Smart is a digital forestry monitoring platform built to help forestry farmers and landowners protect and manage their forests — registering boundaries, storing GPS coordinates, and keeping monitoring logs all in one place.

Forest canopy

Our mission

Replace manual monitoring with affordable digital records.

Forestry monitoring in Tanzania is mostly manual today, which makes it hard to spot illegal cutting, encroachment, and degradation early. We want to change that by giving smallholders affordable digital tools that bring forestry into the modern, data-driven age.

Close-up of a bright forest bush

Sustainability commitment

What we're building toward.

  • Open access to forest data

    Make forest data accessible to the people who own and steward it.

  • Lower the cost of monitoring

    Reduce reliance on expensive physical inspections.

  • A foundation for what's next

    Drones, satellites, and AI analysis layered on the same data.

  • Carbon-credit ready

    Support carbon-credit reporting in future versions.

Who it's for

Built for small and medium forestry stakeholders.

Individual farmers, cooperatives, conservation projects, and local landowners — anyone responsible for the long-term health of a forest in Tanzania.

Smallholder farmers

Smallholder farmers

Cooperatives

Cooperatives

Conservation projects

Conservation projects

Local landowners

Local landowners