Mass media is an industry built on disseminating information at scale, and it is often one of the first information industries to penetrate rural areas. As such, it can be...
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Lessons learned from access to finance interventions within the Land Investment for Transformation Programme (LIFT) in Ethiopia. The case study looks at how the programme has enabled the successful design of a...
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The Springfield Centre, June 2016 This suite of case studies seeks to examine how systemic change has happened over three sectors (vegetables, fish and maize) and a decade of Katalyst...
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KATALYST, Bangladesh, October 2014 This case study explores the approach taken by the Katalyst programme in supporting Bangladesh’s public agricultural extension service to overcome its resource challenges through the application...
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Propcom Mai-karfi, Nigeria, August 2014 A case study exploring the DFID-funded Propcom initiative’s efforts to increase smallholder farmers’ access to quality fertiliser and agronomic knowledge in Nigeria. The case details...
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Someone once told me that I couldn’t be a real agriculturalist until I had at least one failed chicken project under my belt, illustrating both their ubiquity and propensity to...
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Mercy Corps, June 2013 A new case study co-researched and written with Mercy Corps to explore how their RAIN programme has evolved from a narrow value chain to a wider...
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KATALYST, Bangladesh, November 2012 This case study explores Katalyst’s efforts to enable the country’s leading telecoms operators to develop service offers appropriate to the rural poor, in particular, the facilitative...
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PrOpCom Nigeria, October 2011 This case study details the experience of the PrOpCom programme in developing the market for commercially-provided tractor services in Nigeria to address the dual issue of...
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PrOpCom Nigeria, September 2011 The case study documents the programme’s engagement with large fertiliser companies to improve their commercial marketing and distribution of fertiliser to large numbers of smallholder farmers...
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