↳ Rawya Mansour, Founder & CEO

A founder-led farm model, grown from Egypt's Delta.

Since 2007, RAMSCO has treated waste, soil, food, water, and wages as one connected responsibility, and proved it on a single working farm.

↳ RAMSCO farm · Nile Delta, Egypt
The story

The idea began before the farm.

Design a system, then prove it in use. RAMSCO has kept the same discipline from a Cairo studio to the Nile Delta rows.

50people employed
30vegetable varieties
3countries of operation

In 1999, Rawya Mansour founded RAMSCO for Architecture and Interior Design. Her later agricultural work carried the same discipline forward.

In 2007, just before Egypt’s food riots, she founded RAMSCO Trading and Distribution. It later became RAMSCO Egypt for Building & Construction of Eco-villages.

In 2012, she established Oasis Technologies in Monaco for research outside Egypt. Its name stands for Organic Agriculture for Social International Solidarity.

Today, farm waste becomes soil for the next crop through patented organic fertilizers and biochar. The path now runs from that design studio to COP27, Abu Dhabi, and Monaco, held together by one belief: environmental degradation and poverty are two sides of the same coin, and food security is fundamental to political stability.

Rawya Mansour, Founder and CEO of RAMSCO Egypt

Rawya Mansour

Founder and CEO, RAMSCO Egypt · Chairperson, Oasis Technologies, Monaco · Partner of the Mansour Group

Rawya Mansour is an Egyptian founder working across agriculture, soil recovery, women’s work, and international collaboration.

She is a Partner of the Mansour Group, and a partner and board member of Ertekaa for Solid Waste Management Egypt. She also heads the RAMSCO Foundation for Sustainable Development.

She holds international patents for organic fertilizers and agricultural biochar. Both are designed to replace chemical fertilizers and pesticides.

Rawya Mansour with rural women from RAMSCO at a display of the farm's packed organic produce

The wage reaches the women who grow it.

↳ RAMSCO's rural women, with founder Rawya Mansour

One founder, seven companies, one direction.

What began as a design studio now includes companies and partners across Egypt and Monaco. Each role serves the same purpose: design, trade, farming, research, soil work, public benefit, and waste recovery.

  1. 1999Egypt

    RAMSCO for Architecture and Interior Design

    The original design practice, where the systems approach began.

  2. 2007Egypt

    RAMSCO Trading and Distribution

    The first trading arm, which evolved into the eco-villages company below.

  3. 2007 →Egypt

    RAMSCO Egypt for Building & Construction of Eco-villages

    The operating farm and eco-village company. 50 employees · 30 vegetable varieties · soil that holds carbon.

  4. -Egypt

    RAMSCO Foundation for Sustainable Development

    A research center for organic farming and regenerative agriculture.

  5. -Egypt

    RAMSCO Biotechnologies

    Biotech research and development. Home of the Women Empowerment Initiative.

  6. 2012Monaco

    Oasis Technologies

    The international research and patents arm.

  7. -Monaco

    Oasis Association

    Organic Agriculture for Social International Solidarity. The philanthropic arm.

  8. PartnerEgypt

    Ertekaa for Solid Waste Management

    Rawya Mansour is a partner and board member.

Proven on one farm. Built to travel.

The model begins with four linked practices: biochar, drip irrigation, organic fertilizers, and rural women employed directly. By 2030, RAMSCO’s vision is sized to reach:

340
Zero-emission eco-villages
10M
Jobs across rural Africa
35M
Tons of agricultural waste recycled
1.5M
Acres of desert reclaimed

The model addresses all 17 of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. In 2025, the BRICS Businesswomen Alliance named RAMSCO among its top women-empowerment practices.

Source: 6th Arab Water Forum keynote · Abu Dhabi · 2024

How the soil is rebuilt.

Three systems work together on one farm. RAMSCO’s patents cover organic fertilizers and agricultural biochar designed to replace chemical fertilizers and pesticides.

01 · Biochar

Agricultural waste returned to soil.

Biochar is made from agricultural waste that is often burned after harvest. Returned to the ground, it helps soil hold carbon, water, and nutrients.

Biochar helps RAMSCO keep more carbon in the soil.

02 · Bio-fertilizer

Living fertilizer instead of chemicals.

A living fertilizer made with bacteria, algae, and fungi. It feeds the soil without chemical fertilizers and is patented internationally.

03 · Compost

Compost for the next crop.

Animal waste, plant waste, and food waste return to the soil as compost. The farm keeps useful material out of fire and landfill.

The farm, in frames.

Real days on the RAMSCO farm: the rows, the harvest, the people, and the life that returns when the chemicals leave.

A child at the edge of the RAMSCO farm at golden hour, a praying mantis on his hand
Golden hour at the farm's edge
Rows of crops on the RAMSCO farm in the Nile Delta
The Delta rows
RAMSCO organic cherry tomatoes, packed for market
Picked and packed the same day
A basket of freshly harvested RAMSCO organic vegetables
Thirty kinds, in season
RAMSCO organic courgette flowers, freshly packed
Organic, certified

Six commitments.

Measured against RAMSCO’s own operations. Counted, not claimed.

  1. 01100% of farm waste recycled back into compost.
  2. 02Up to 60% water saved with biochar and drip irrigation.
  3. 03Soil supported by compost, biochar, and organic fertilizers.
  4. 04Direct employment of rural women at equal wages to men.
  5. 05Training Egyptian rural farmers in smart agriculture.
  6. 06Soil work that keeps more carbon in the ground.

Two decades of recognition.

Local, regional, and global. The public record, by year.

  1. 2007
    Keynote

    UNIDO keynote speaker on the green economy for Arab countries, invited as an honorary guest.

    ↳ United Nations Industrial Development Organization
  2. 2017
    Award

    Global Award for Entrepreneurship. The top global honor, for agricultural-waste recycling that addresses all 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals.

    ↳ Int’l Federation of Women in Business (BPW)
  3. 2019
    Award

    African Female Leader of the Year. The sole Egyptian woman on the shortlist.

    ↳ African Leaders Magazine
  4. 2022
    Recognition
    • First Egyptian woman to receive the Prince Albert II Environmental Society Membership · Dec
    • RAMSCO-National Council for Women partnership: Entrepreneurs for Zero-Waste Eco-Villages · Nov
    • Member, Planetary Health Pledge Club, Monaco · Dec
  5. 2023
    Recognition
    • Forbes Middle East: 100 Most Powerful Businesswomen
    • CIB-Glam Sustainability Award · Mar
    • Honored by the Colombian Ambassador to Egypt · Mar
  6. 2025
    Recognition

    RAMSCO Women Empowerment Initiative named a BRICS Businesswomen Alliance Top Practice.

    ↳ BRICS Businesswomen Alliance
  7. 2026
    Latest

    Arab Women of the Year, Egypt.

    ↳ Egypt

Boards & affiliations.

Rawya Mansour's work reaches beyond the farm, through the councils and institutions where food, water, climate, and women's leadership are decided.

  • Red Crescent CouncilBoard Member
  • Arab Water AcademyBoard of Directors
  • Council of Arab BusinesswomenMember
  • Earth Institute, Columbia UniversityMember
  • Information & Decision Support Centre, Egyptian Council of Ministers (for UNDP)Member
  • Egypt’s National Council for WomenForeign Relations Committee
  • Clinton Global Initiative FoundationAffiliated
  • Prince Albert II of Monaco FoundationHonorary Member
  • Planetary Health Pledge Club, MonacoMember

Understand the model in context.

For institutional partners, distributors, journalists, and collaborators, RAMSCO’s story begins with the farm and expands through the systems around it.

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