MoA-INFO has rapidly developed new capabilities and widened its scope to more effectively serve Kenya’s smallholder farmers. PAD’s Africa Regional Director, Emmanuel Bakirdjian reflects on the first two years of MoA-INFO’s operations. This month marks …
Sam Strimling, a Research Associate on PAD’s Kenya team, reflects on the results of an initial round of interviews surveying farmers and agro-dealers across Kenya’s agricultural heartland. AGRO-DEALER & FARMER COVID-19 SURVEY, APRIL-JUNE 2020 Between …
How does one empower smallholder farmers during the COVID-19 pandemic? Jonathan Lehe – PAD’s Chief Development Officer and Director of New Programs – reflects on the powerful advantages of digital information systems in a context …
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The impact of the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, is changing the lives of our staff and the farmers we serve across all our geographies. Our families, community and colleagues have not escaped the most pernicious effects …
We have just tied the bow on our final quarterly report for 2019. In the full calendar year Precision Agriculture for Development (PAD) served 3.5 million farmers, assisting some of the poorest people on our …
Tomoko Harigaya, PAD’s Chief Economist and Director of Research, reflects on what this year’s Nobel Prize in Economics and a recent meta-analysis published in Science mean for our work. Over the course of the past …
Listen in to our CEO, Owen Barder, and co-founder, Michael Kremer, discuss PAD’s use of mobile technology to empower smallholder farmers with actionable information on the BBC’s Digital Planet program.
#TeamPAD is living its bucket list in Sverige. Our co-founder, and PAD board member, Michael Kremer is in Stockholm to receive his Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences together with his co-laureates, and longstanding collaborators, …
Precision Agriculture for Development (PAD) is humbled to share the news that our co-founder and board member, Michael Kremer, is a 2019 Nobel Laureate for Economic Sciences. In announcing the award, the Nobel Committee stated that Michael …