Agriculture

Go beyond crude measures of registered farmers and number of downloads and learn who is truly engaging with digital solutions.

We spoke to nearly 5,000 farmers about their experience with digital solutions, and developed a simple way to define if a farmer has truly adopted the digital tool they are using.

Our latest report with Acumen investigates how specific products & services influence drivers of income for MSMEs. It highlights insights from customer surveys of 3 innovative companies in Acumen’s portfolio.

Looking for interactive data from 18,000 farmers right at your fingertips? We're excited to launch our Farmer Benchmarks! In the last three years, we've interviewed farmers in 19 countries across 93 Lean Data projects.

The Farmer Benchmarks are a free, interactive tool for the agriculture sector to benchmark performance – the result of an extensive research effort, involving interviews with over 18,000 farmers across 19 countries, via 93 impact measurement projects over the past three years.

As of June 24, 2021, this dashboard presents what we heard from over 6,100 Kenyan farmers, roughly 500 each month from June 2020 through May 2021.