Faari · Farmer Coordination Platform · Côte d'Ivoire
Faari gives agricultural training programmes real-time visibility into what happens once farmers are in the field. Coordinate delivery, protect your training investment, and report to funders with evidence instead of anecdotes.
Why it matters
The Dutch investment in MOYÉ is a long-term food system strategy. It only delivers its full return when trained farmers consistently apply what they learned and local production grows. Faari is the coordination infrastructure that makes that return possible.
The problem
Agricultural training programmes invest years and significant capital in their farmers. But once farmers leave the programme, no infrastructure exists to see what they actually do. There is no sector-wide system for tracking what actually happens at the farm level. The training investment exists on paper. What happens between the training centre and the harvest has always been invisible.
How it works
Faari sits between the programme and the farm. Coordinators see everything. Field agents go where they are needed most. Farmers receive the right prompt at the right moment. And at reporting time, you have evidence.
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Real-time visibility into every farmer, every activity, every week. See who is on track, who is falling behind, and where your field agents should be deployed before the window closes. As seasonal data accumulates, the dashboard identifies anomalies at the farmer and cohort level, so programmes can intervene before problems become irreversible.
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Faari dynamically prioritises which farmers need in-person support each week, so your extension team spends time where it has the highest impact rather than visiting by habit or proximity.
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Programme farmers receive SMS and app alerts tied to the agronomic calendar, covering 40+ activities per season, so they know exactly what to do and when. Every completion is logged. Every season builds a verified production record that belongs to the farmer, and that Faari uses as the data layer for future market access, input linkage, and financial services.
The data layer
Every activity a programme farmer completes in Faari builds a verified, time-stamped production record. That record is the data infrastructure that makes the next layer of services possible.
Two seasons of verified activity completion data is the creditworthiness signal that agricultural lenders across West Africa have needed but never had access to. Faari's records make programme farmers bankable.
Activity completion data predicts harvest timing and expected volumes before the season ends. That makes programme farmers reliable supply partners for food companies, exporters, and buyers who need predictable, traceable sourcing.
As agroecology and agroforestry practices enter the curriculum, Faari's activity logs become the verification layer for carbon programmes and sustainability-linked supply chains that need evidence of compliant on-farm practice.
These are not features being built today. They are the natural destination of the data infrastructure Faari is laying now.
Pilot programme
Faari pilots within MOYÉ, the Centre d'Excellence Horticole Ivoiro-Néerlandais in Yamoussoukro, backed by Dutch government funding and a consortium of leading seed companies and agricultural research institutions.
Centre d'Excellence Horticole Ivoiro-Néerlandais, Yamoussoukro District, Côte d'Ivoire. Launched August 2025. First cohort of 25 trainees certified; second cohort February 2026. Incubation of trained graduates into active farm operations begins January 2027.
MOYÉ's stated biggest operational challenge: coordinating 4,200 farmers across 40+ agronomic activities. Faari pilots within MOYÉ to validate one core thesis: that coordination data strengthens end-of-season reporting, giving the programme verifiable evidence it can stand behind with funders.
View programme on LinkedIn →Programme consortium
Evidence base
Programmes like MOYÉ already know training works. The question their funders are asking is whether trained farmers are applying it. J-PAL's synthesis of RCTs across Sub-Saharan Africa shows that the missing variable is not training quality. It is the coordination infrastructure that ensures consistent application once farmers are in active production.
J-PAL · Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab, MIT
J-PAL's policy insight synthesises findings from multiple randomised controlled trials on agricultural extension and training across Sub-Saharan Africa. The evidence consistently shows that combining structured training with real-time digital coordination tools amplifies adoption of improved practices at the farm level. Coordination is not a nice-to-have layer on top of training. It is what makes the training investment defensible.
Read the J-PAL policy insight →Faari is built for agricultural training programmes, development NGOs, bilateral funders, seed companies, agricultural lenders, and food companies who need reliable, traceable smallholder supply. If you work anywhere in the smallholder agricultural value chain and want to know what actually happens once farmers are in the field, we would like to hear from you.