We are pleased to launch the DiFF Project Report for Year 3 of our 5-year project. This report provides more detail on our Year Three activities and outlines our plans for Years Four and Five.

Today we are pleased to announce the release of our first DiFF Project Report (Year 2, 2023-2024). In this report we provide details about our findings, and present a road map for the remainder of the project. We look forward to hearing your thoughts and ideas!

Between mid-October to mid-November, we did the first round of qualitative fieldwork in Laos to begin collecting data and exploring questions regarding discernible impacts of digital financial services on smallholder farmers. In this post we reflect on our process and initial observations.