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Are Farmers Using Digital Tools Meaningfully?

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.

Caravela Coffee: Insights on Digital Payments for Colombian Coffee Farmers

Caravela, a specialty coffee exporter in Colombia, supports farmers by paying them directly through bank transfers. 60 Decibels conducted phone surveys with 279 of these farmers – here's what we found.

Lean Income Measurement

Many organizations measure beneficiary income in pursuit of poverty alleviation, and accurate data collection is complex and time-consuming. But is the data you're collecting truly useful?

Exploring the 60dB Farmer Thriving Index

Simple, scalable wellbeing measurement, powered by farmer voice to discover whether farmers are thriving or merely surviving.

A Leaner, More Nuanced Approach to Classifying Smallholder Farmers

Classifying small-scale producers is key to targeted insights, but 60dB needed a model suited to its lean data approach, where full farm profiles aren’t always feasible.

Investors find child-lens impact through interviews with customers (ImpactAlpha)

Lindsay Smalling (60dB) and Erin Egan (UNICFEF USA's Impact Fund for Children) explore where impact on children is already apparent in three major sectors: off-grid energy, agriculture, and microfinance.

“Lean Evaluations” for Measuring the Impact of Digital Farmer Services

The digital farmer services sector needs rigorous impact evidence without costly RCTs. 60dB, with Gates Foundation and Busara, piloted a balanced evaluation method.

Perspectives on the Coffee Farmer Thriving Index

Explore feedback from participating cooperatives, funders, and coffee sector experts to capture lessons and inform future plans for the 60dB Farmer Thriving Index.

Farmer voices on soil health

Discover insights from our latest report on soil health and farmer perspectives. Learn how smallholder farmers in Kenya are managing soil acidity, barriers they face, and practical solutions for climate resilience and productivity.

How to Choose a Method to Measure the Impact of Digital Farmer Services

Since 2022, 60dB, in partnership with the Busara Center for Behavioral Economics and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, has been refining methods to measure the impact of DFS on smallholder farmer welfare.

Smallholder Voices Are Critical in Ethical Supply Chains (Sustainable Brands)

60 Decibels Agriculture Lead, Ellie Turner, features in Sustainable Brands unpacking key findings from the 2024 Coffee Farmer Thriving Index report.

From the source: lean methods for capturing labor practices in supply chains

60 Decibels worked with Sucden to test the success of innovative methods (the List Experiment) in collecting data on sensitive topics like child labor and adult labor practices.

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Are Farmers Using Digital Tools Meaningfully?

Caravela Coffee: Insights on Digital Payments for Colombian Coffee Farmers

Lean Income Measurement

Exploring the 60dB Farmer Thriving Index

A Leaner, More Nuanced Approach to Classifying Smallholder Farmers

Investors find child-lens impact through interviews with customers (ImpactAlpha)

“Lean Evaluations” for Measuring the Impact of Digital Farmer Services

Perspectives on the Coffee Farmer Thriving Index

Farmer voices on soil health

How to Choose a Method to Measure the Impact of Digital Farmer Services

Smallholder Voices Are Critical in Ethical Supply Chains (Sustainable Brands)

From the source: lean methods for capturing labor practices in supply chains

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