One key example is our flagship digital agricultural advisory program in Odisha, India. Evidence from this program shows that these services can help protect farmers from devastating crop losses, particularly during extreme weather events, with an estimated return of $12-19 in farmer profits for every $1 invested. This program was PxD’s first large-scale initiative developed in collaboration with a government partner. Today, it serves over 7 million farmers and is now entirely government-owned and financed.

Also in India, we provide seasonal weather forecasts to over 9 million farmers to help them manage production risks. Based on the positive feedback from farmers, we are now working with partners—including the Federal Ministry of Agriculture in India—to expand this effort, by adding new types of forecasts and additional dissemination channels, and by continuously improving how we communicate weather information to farmers. 

This year, we introduced a new service model of embedding units within governments to provide strategic guidance on their digital agriculture portfolios. This dual role for PxD—acting as trusted advisors shaping policies and systems, and as implementers driving large-scale impact—enables us to amplify our insights and extend our impact to millions more farmers than we could directly reach ourselves. Our teams now support the Ministries of Agriculture in India and Ethiopia, and I’m incredibly proud of the progress we’ve made in such a short time.

Events in recent months have presented unprecedented challenges to the international development sector, and have created uncertainty across programs and organizations. These disruptions are impacting all of us and threatening services that are critical to the communities we serve. 

In these challenging times, we are more determined than ever to remain focused on cost-effectiveness and impact. We have clear evidence that PxD’s services are highly cost-effective, enhance farmers’ resilience to climate shocks, and generate meaningful and sustainable impacts at the intersection of food security, poverty, and climate change.

In 2025, we shall continue to work with governments and other partners to deliver services to millions of farmers, and we shall focus on institutionalizing our new service model of advising governments. We are particularly excited about leveraging new advanced technologies—such as artificial intelligence—to unlock significantly higher benefits for farmers at much lower costs. 

I remain deeply grateful for your continued support of PxD’s work.