Press

  • Niriksha Shetty, PxD’s India Country Director, was quoted extensively in a DEVEX article, How to realize the potential for digital extension services for farmers (paywalled), on digital extension tools and mobile platforms (March 2022).
  • PxD’s COVID-19 surveys of farmers and agro-dealers in Kenya are cited in this African Business magazine overview of the impacts of the pandemic on African agriculture (September 2020).
  • PxD’s Africa Director, Emmanuel Bakirdjian was interviewed by Estadão, Brazil’s paper of record, about PxD’s work in East Africa in the context of COVID-19 (July 2019).
  • Coverage of Michael Kremer’s presentation to the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture by Thomson Reuters – “Digitalizar el agro en América Latina, clave para progreso y seguridad alimentaria: Nobel Kremer” (June 2020).
  • Owen Barder, PxD’s CEO, and Michael Kremer, co-founder, and freshly minted Nobel Laureate, discuss the evidentiary base informing PxD’s work, as well as digital agriculture’s potential in this edition of Digital Planet, a BBC podcast (December 2019).
  • PxD press release highlighting the findings of the meta-analysis co-authored by PxD co-founder Michael Kremer on the potential of digital agriculture to improve smallholder farming practices (December 2019).
  • PAD Board Member and Project Lead Michael Kremer presents PxD work in a lecture on digital agriculture at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • PxD’s Chief Development Officer and Director of New Programs, Jonathan Lehe, was interviewed about PxD’S work for Harvard University’s Center for International Development podcast (May 2019).
  • VoxDev cites our academic work in “Improving agricultural extension and information services in the developing world” (January 2019).
  • PxD’s mobile outreach program in Kenya is discussed in the Financial Times (October 2018). 
  • Our work with Kenya’s Ministry of Agriculture on the fall armyworm crisis is highlighted in The Standard (October 2018). 
  • The Invasive Species Compendium uses PxD as a resource for fall armyworm action (October 2018). 
  • Support of the Coffee Board of India’s digital agricultural advisory services in The Hindu BusinessLine (September 2018). 
  • Kenya Country Director, Emmanuel Bakirdjian, discusses PxD’s partnership with the Ministry of Agriculture in Kenya in The Standard (July 2018). 
  • Our research on Fall Armyworm in Kenya is reported on KBC Channel 1 (July 2018).
  • Research presented by co-founders, Michael Kremer and Shawn Cole, on the World Bank’s Development Impact blog (February 2018). 
  • Data Scientist, Ofir Reich, on the 80,000 hours podcast (January 2018). 
  • Director of Operations, Megan Sheahan, speaks at Boston’s GreenFest (August 2017). 
  • Impact evaluation results of service with partner Awaaz.de at The Hindu’s Business Line (October 2016).