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What the field is
telling us.

Short, honest notes on what we're learning, from methods that worked to findings that surprised us.

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Methods Cold chain SROI Policy Capacity building
Six field notes in the pipeline. One a month, starting soon.
01Next up
Harvested grain held in a farmer's palm
Cold chain · from a feasibility study

Why 96% of farmers sell on harvest day, and what that means for cold-chain investors.

Distress selling is usually read as a price problem. Our district-level fieldwork suggests it is closer to a storage-proximity problem, with direct consequences for where capital should go.

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The finding behind it
Δ 96%
of farmers sell same-day at distress prices
Each square = 1 farmer in 100
02In the pipeline

Field notes we're writing.

Each one comes out of a study we ran, with the method and the numbers attached.

Methods

The case for treatment-control designs in small-budget impact assessments.

Counterfactuals are usually the first thing cut from a tight budget. They shouldn't be.

Coming soon →
SROI · from an impact verification

SROI without the hand-waving: linking social returns to audited financials.

What changes when your impact ratio has to reconcile with a balance sheet.

Coming soon →
Crop residue burning in a harvested field
Methods

How we scored 113 districts to pick 4: a replicable site-selection method.

The eleven criteria, the weights, and where the index disagreed with intuition.

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Policy · from a state-wide study

What 10,000 households told us about barriers to higher education in MP.

Money and awareness, in that order, and why hostels keep coming up.

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Capacity building · from a district programme

Teaching AI to a district administration: notes from training 300+ officials.

What a training needs assessment revealed before we wrote a single slide.

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