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.