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The relationship between microfinance and climate resilience

Our research reveals a positive correlation between microloan borrowers' ability to handle a major emergency expense and their improved financial management and savings balance. This underscores the critical role of microfinance in enabling clients, especially women, to build resilience against financial shocks.

60 Decibels Farmer Benchmarks

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.

Bridging the Gender Gap in Agricultural Advisories: Insights from Farming Messages in Ethiopia

The Interactive Voice Response (IVR) platform facilitates convenient and accessible information delivery, allowing farmers to access critical guidance through their basic mobile phones.

farmer working in a field - as part of agriculture sector benchmarks collected by 60 decibels

60 Decibels Launches Farmer Benchmarks: A Groundbreaking Tool for Advancing Agriculture Sector Impact

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.

Bayer’s Collaborative Initiatives: Improving Smallholder Farmers’ Livelihoods

Dive into four parts of Bayer's mission to reach smallholder farmers.

Syngenta Foundation’s Agri-Entrepreneur Program Is Moving in the Right Direction – with Room to Get Better

Syngenta Foundation's Agri-Entrepreneur program now serves more than a million Indian smallholders. That sounds impressive, but what do these farmers think of the services provided? How is the program improving their lives? We recently asked 455 of them.

4 Things We’ve Learned from the 60dB Farmer Benchmarks

93 projects. 18,000+ farmers. 19 countries. Our Farmer Benchmarks are the sector's first performance benchmarks to help companies contextualize and understand their impact.

Bayer Foundation Impact Report 2022: Moving from Impact Measurement to Management

We spoke with 1,216 respondents engaging with 5 of Bayer Foundation's grantees in August - November 2022; across Kenya, Madagascar, Uganda, and Senegal, they had a lot to say.

Running a business is good for you: a look at Syngenta Foundation’s Agri-Entrepreneur program

Syngenta Foundation Policy Head Yuan Zhou and Aparna Shukla from Syngenta Foundation India discuss their 60 Decibels survey results and share insights on how to improve their programming to better serve agri-entrepreneurs.

Improving Interactive Voice Response Technology for Dairy Farmers

Digital Green is enhancing Interactive Voice Response (IVR) technology to provide timely and accurate information to dairy farmers in Ethiopia on cattle care and nutrition.

Introducing the 60dB Digital Agriculture Index

The 60dB Digital Agriculture Index is a simple way for farmers to share their experiences using digital tools across advisory, inputs, credit, buyers, and insurance services.

A Solution for Measuring Climate Resilience

The Climate Resilience Assessment measures changes in three key dimensions of household resilience, all captured through lean, remote interviews with a representative sample of stakeholders.

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The relationship between microfinance and climate resilience

60 Decibels Farmer Benchmarks

Bridging the Gender Gap in Agricultural Advisories: Insights from Farming Messages in Ethiopia

60 Decibels Launches Farmer Benchmarks: A Groundbreaking Tool for Advancing Agriculture Sector Impact

Bayer’s Collaborative Initiatives: Improving Smallholder Farmers’ Livelihoods

Syngenta Foundation’s Agri-Entrepreneur Program Is Moving in the Right Direction – with Room to Get Better

4 Things We’ve Learned from the 60dB Farmer Benchmarks

Bayer Foundation Impact Report 2022: Moving from Impact Measurement to Management

Running a business is good for you: a look at Syngenta Foundation’s Agri-Entrepreneur program

Improving Interactive Voice Response Technology for Dairy Farmers

Introducing the 60dB Digital Agriculture Index

A Solution for Measuring Climate Resilience

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