Here Comes the Rain Again: Team MoA-INFO springs into action

As Kenya’s Short Rains agricultural season commences Maureen Kuboka, Wanjiku Macharia, Daniel Mokrauer-Madden, Sidney Muchule, JingKai Ong, Yifan Powers and Stefania Pozzi walk us through what MoA-INFO has in store. A majority of Kenya’s arable …

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The Journey to One Million: PAD in India

Niriksha Shetty, PAD’s India Country Director, reflects on a remarkable milestone. In September, 2020, Precision Agriculture for Development in India* surpassed the 1 million mark for farmers who receive advisory content through our services. This …

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New Partnerships and Geographies

**UPDATE** On December 15, 2021, the Brazilian Ministry of Agriculture canceled the project that had been awarded to PxD by public tender. We continue to work with our regional partners, IICA, and the Government of Brazil …

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MoA-INFO is two years old!

MoA-INFO has rapidly developed new capabilities and widened its scope to more effectively serve Kenya’s smallholder farmers. PAD’s Africa Regional Director, Emmanuel Bakirdjian reflects on the first two years of MoA-INFO’s operations. This month marks …

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Hardship & Optimism in Kenya

Sam Strimling, a Research Associate on PAD’s Kenya team, reflects on the results of an initial round of interviews surveying farmers and agro-dealers across Kenya’s agricultural heartland. AGRO-DEALER & FARMER COVID-19 SURVEY, APRIL-JUNE 2020 Between …

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A Quarter of Uncertainty and Action

The impact of the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, is changing the lives of our staff and the farmers we serve across all our geographies. Our families, community and colleagues have not escaped the most pernicious effects …

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From Experiments to Scale

We have just tied the bow on our final quarterly report for 2019. In the full calendar year Precision Agriculture for Development (PAD) served 3.5 million farmers, assisting some of the poorest people on our …

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Carry On!

Tomoko Harigaya, PAD’s Chief Economist and Director of Research, reflects on what this year’s Nobel Prize in Economics and a recent meta-analysis published in Science mean for our work. Over the course of the past …

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It’s #NobelWeek in Stockholm

#TeamPAD is living its bucket list in Sverige. Our co-founder, and PAD board member, Michael Kremer is in Stockholm to receive his Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences together with his co-laureates, and longstanding collaborators, …

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Michael Kremer is a Nobel Prize Winner

Precision Agriculture for Development (PAD) is humbled to share the news that our co-founder and board member, Michael Kremer, is a 2019 Nobel Laureate for Economic Sciences. In announcing the award, the Nobel Committee stated that Michael …

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