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Agriculture & Livelihoods

Research, data and evaluation experience applied to real-world development challenges.

OUR EXPERIENCE

Understanding farmers, value chains and livelihoods.

Agriculture and livelihoods are important areas of PrimeMetrics' sector capability. Our core team has worked on research involving farmers, women farmers, vulnerable households, value-chain actors, agricultural finance and digital agricultural services.

Recent experience includes studies for the World Bank, IFC, IFPRI, GIZ, BCG and other partners. These assignments have covered agricultural credit, sesame and cocoa production, vulnerable farmers and IDPs, aquaculture value chains, dairy development and digital participation in agriculture and food systems.

This experience allows us to approach agricultural research from both the household and market perspectives. We can work with farmers and rural households while also collecting information from value-chain actors, businesses and service providers.

What we bring

  • Research design and field implementation
  • Large-scale survey management
  • Quantitative and qualitative data collection
  • Data quality assurance and daily field feedback
  • Monitoring, evaluation and impact assessment
  • Analysis-ready, well-documented datasets
OUR CAPABILITIES

How we support sector research

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Agricultural household surveys

Research with farmers, rural households, women farmers and vulnerable agricultural communities.

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Agricultural finance

Evaluation and follow-up research on agricultural credit and input financing programmes.

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Value-chain research

Quantitative and qualitative research with actors across agricultural value chains.

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Livelihoods research

Research on income, employment, enterprise activity, resilience and household economic wellbeing.

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Digital agriculture

Studies of digital participation and agricultural advisory services.

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Impact evaluation

Baseline, follow-up and endline research for agricultural and livelihood interventions.

SELECTED EXPERIENCE

Experience that informs our approach

Our capability is built from hands-on work across complex studies, multiple locations and different research designs.

  • SWAY-AGFIN agricultural credit programme for women farmers
  • Agricultural input financing evaluation in Kaduna
  • Robust Sesame Farmers baseline study
  • Johnvents Cocoa farmers baseline data collection
  • Vulnerable farmers and IDPs survey work in Gombe
  • Aquaculture value-chain research in Delta and Kaduna
  • Digital Agricultural Advisory Services research in Northern Nigeria
  • Advancing Local Dairy Development in Nigeria studies

Our agricultural research capability combines field experience with the data, qualitative research and programme-management systems required to deliver evidence from difficult-to-reach rural settings.

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