Dayaxa Frankincense

Somaliland | Climate & nature-based solutions, Irrigation

The company

Dayaxa works with farmers in Somaliland to harvest sustainable produce, achieve fair pricing and improve living standards for farming communities.

Problem

Communities in the Sanaag region of Somaliland do not set prices for the frankincense resin that they tap from trees, with all the value in the supply chain taken by resin traders. Combined with the impact of climate change, these harvesters have few incentives to harvest sustainably, instead overharvesting to maximise short-term income.

GSMA project

In November 2022, Dayaxa received a GSMA grant to improve earnings for resin farmers through a mobile blockchain app that traces where resin is sourced and the price paid to harvesters. The grant was also used to develop a tree health mobile app for traceability and ecological monitoring.

Outcomes

Developing the traceability app helped Dayaxa secure new commercial deals for the purchase of resin. This validated the importance of traceability for buyers.
Dayaxa pays farmers 150% more per kilogram of resin than traditional intermediaries and brokers.

Traction

• As of March 2025, more than 1,380 frankincense resin harvesters and sorters use the traceability app to monitor resin and improve transparency throughout the value chain.

• The status of more than 2,700 frankincense trees is now being tracked through the blockchainenabled traceability app.

To find out more, read the Dayaxa case study.

Message from the founder

“The funding will enable us to transform traceability and tree health tracking for resin producing species in the Sanaag region of Somaliland, and in particular for Frankincense Carteri, through developing a bespoke blockchain app that furthers our mission to transform this fragile supply chain and support marginalised resin harvesting communities.”

– Abdirizak Salah Mohamed, Founder