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  • What We Do
    • Our Initiatives
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    • Our Motivation
    • Our Model
    • Annual Reports
    • Quarterly Reports
    • Our COVID-19 Response
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    • Testimonials
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Climate

We are intensifying our efforts to provide information to smallholder farmers that will allow them to make informed decisions to reduce the risks that climate change presents to their livelihoods and to enjoin their farming and land management activities in the fight against climate change. PxD is focusing on identifying interventions that can improve smallholder livelihoods whilst incorporating climate adaptation and mitigation efforts into our existing services. Climate-smart advisory, adaptation, and mitigation efforts are already embedded into our programs across all the geographies we work in, as well as into the day-to-day agricultural activities that PxD farmers carry out. We focus both on climate change adaptation (reducing potential damage) and climate change mitigation (tackling the causes), as the activities and approaches are distinct.

Making markets for carbon: can smallholder farmers benefit from investments to cut climate change?

February 20, 2023February 20, 2023

Paying people for actions that contribute to climate change mitigation, known as payment for ecosystem services (PES), has the potential to address both environmental and poverty alleviation goals. For example, there is a strong history …

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Can millions of smallholder farmers meaningfully mitigate climate change and be rewarded for it? We think so.

November 22, 2022November 10, 2022

PxD is collaborating with the Institute for Governance and Sustainable Development (IGSD) to identify opportunities to benefit poor farming communities through their participation in climate mitigation activities. The 27th Conference of the Parties (COP 27) …

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Disease, Heat, and Floods: Using digital services to mitigate new challenges to women’s livelihoods in rural Pakistan

October 14, 2022October 14, 2022

When disease and a heatwave, followed by devastating floods ravaged Pakistan’s Punjab province, PxD’s LMAFRP digital information service, which we implement in partnership with the Rural Community Development Society (RCDS) with support from the International …

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Information for adaptation: Assisting Kenyan farmers on the frontline of climate change

September 21, 2022September 19, 2022

From confronting cataclysmic floods in Pakistan, to biblical pest infestations in east Africa, smallholder farmers are on the frontline of an escalating climate crisis. Poor farmers, whose livelihoods disproportionately depend on rainfed agriculture, are particularly …

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Twelve months, 2,800 farmers and a new country: Colombia UK Pact Project

August 1, 2022August 1, 2022

In consortium with Rare and The Nature Conservancy (TNC), PxD received a one-year grant from UK PACT in December 2020 to support the implementation of a project to promote sustainable and productive agriculture through behavioral …

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Brewing better weather services for Indian coffee farmers

May 20, 2022May 17, 2022

Accurate, medium-range weather forecasting information can help mitigate smallholder farmers’ exposure to climate-related risks. PxD is in the process of launching new products to assist smallholder farmers to make more informed and timely decisions based …

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Reading the coffee grounds: A landscape analysis of challenges confronting Indian coffee growers

May 17, 2022April 26, 2022

Precision Development (PxD) has completed a landscape analysis to more systematically understand the challenges faced by users of the Coffee Krishi Taranga (CKT) service, with a focus on three core areas, namely, sustainability, market linkages, …

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Cottoning on: A free weather product for Punjab’s cotton belt

February 18, 2022February 18, 2022

PxD is building a free weather forecast product for cotton farmers in Pakistan’s Punjab Province to be launched in March, ahead of Kharif – South Asia’s summer planting season. The service will be launched in …

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Weathering the storm: Smallholder farmers and the untapped potential of weather forecasts

February 18, 2022February 3, 2022

Accurate weather forecasts would reduce uncertainty for farmers, yet they are under-supplied and under-studied in developing countries. Government and market failures reduce the quality and reach of weather information in rural regions, reducing its value …

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Fighting Poverty through Climate Action

May 31, 2022November 18, 2021

Last week delegates convened in Glasgow at the 26th Conference of the Parties (COP26) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change to engage in the difficult task of negotiating an offramp to climate …

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