Propellerfish teams in India explore how the adoption of Indian wellbeing practices in the West have impacted those practices at home
REQUEST A SCREENINGOur solution paired a technology platform with a network of agents visiting farmers with a smart device. The device contains an encyclopedia of knowledge that can help farmers develop their farms. It can also link them to financial services, open up access to more lucrative markets and deliver personalized sms alerts for farmers based on their specific needs.
THE OUTCOME
A new service with digital and physical touch-points, based on available resources and technologies, able to link local farmers to a wider range of opportunities.
Our solution was solid, but solutions are only useful in practice. In early 2015, we returned to Davao to prototype our solution with a team of local agents over five days. First, we took the team local agents through formal FarmerLink training. We then sent them out into the field to trial the solution with farmers and experiment with different forms of engagement. We then sat down together to download our learnings and iterate on the model to simplify the overall farmer experience. In one week, we turned a solution that made sense in theory into one that worked in practice.
The program is currently being piloted in Davao and has received a grant for up to $1 Million in funding from USAID, the Rockefeller Foundation and SIDA as part of the Global Resiliency Partnership.
