Our commitment to evidence-based development ensures every expansion is grounded in proven methods. The Learning Agenda outlines our strategic, phased approach to testing, iterating, and validating the VIF model's impact, ensuring our growth is both rapid and sustainable for the communities we serve.

  • We tested six variants of the VIF model and experimented with scaling through local partners.

    Implementation Partners: Innovation for Poverty Action

    Funders: ATAI

  • ATAI and DIV Stage 2 grants allowed us to further test the impacts of VIFs on farmers and input dealers. We also developed our scaling strategy including our auction design.

    Implementation Partners: Innovation for Poverty Action

    Funders: ATAI, USAID DIV

  • We test the VIF model in northern Ghana and integrate organic input dealers into the VIF model with implications for using VIFs to promote sustainable intensification.

    Implementation Partners: Innovation for Poverty Action

    Funders: Fund for Innovation in Development (FID)

  • Researchers partner with Global Development Incubator to design a scaling strategy to take the innovation to other countries in the region.

  • The first social enterprise is incorporated in Mali to scale VIFs, the culmination of our years of research on VIFs in Mali.

  • A new impact evaluation is started to test VIFs in new country with international fertilizer company, OCP. In this evaluation, we also integrate soil recommendations to evaluate whether VIF + soil recommendations increases farmer impact.

    Funder: UJALA