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Agriculture and agribusiness research

Farmer, input and value-chain research for agribusiness, processors and the programmes that fund them.

Commissioned by: Input manufacturers, processors, aggregators, agri-lenders and donor programmes.

Questions we answer

  • ?What do smallholders actually plant, spray and sell, and to whom?
  • ?Why is adoption of an input lower than the trial data suggested?
  • ?Where does value leak along the chain between farm and processor?
  • ?What would make a farmer switch supplier or offtaker?
  • ?How is credit and insurance understood at farm level?

What we measure

  • ·Farm practice, input use and adoption barriers
  • ·Value-chain mapping from farm to processor
  • ·Offtaker and supplier switching drivers
  • ·Agri-credit and insurance comprehension
  • ·Yield, price and margin reporting at farm level

How we field it

CAPIDepth interviewsCATIField observation

Modes are chosen by what the question needs, not by what is cheapest. Read the method.

What you receive

A value-chain map with adoption barriers named and quantified at the point they occur.

With the dataset, the cross-tabulations and the method statement. The data is yours outright.

Where we field

54 African markets, to ward level where the administrative geography allows it. Kenya is mapped to all 47 counties, 290 constituencies and 1,450 wards.

Start with a scoping call.

Thirty minutes to fix what the study has to answer, the markets it covers and what it will cost. Nothing goes to field before you sign off the design.

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