Can GRC conduct farmer or pastoral household surveys?
Yes. GRC's portfolio includes food security, livelihood, resilience and climate-related assignments involving rural, pastoral and agro-pastoral contexts.
Agriculture, livelihoods and climate
Field research for Ethiopia's rural, agricultural and climate-resilience contexts.
GRC supports studies that require reliable evidence from farming, pastoral, agro-pastoral and rural communities. Our work connects household-level evidence with livelihoods, food security, resilience, climate adaptation, markets and local implementation realities.
Research questions that require strong field understanding.
Agriculture and climate studies often depend on details that are easy to lose through generic data collection: seasonality, production cycles, livestock mobility, market access, drought exposure, flood risk, livelihood diversification, household decision-making, gendered roles and local adaptation practices. GRC designs or implements field protocols with attention to these contextual factors.
Potential study components.
Assignments may include farmer and household surveys, enterprise and agribusiness interviews, food security measurement, livelihood and resilience assessments, climate-adaptation research, natural-resource management studies, value-chain research, market assessments, KIIs with extension and local government actors, FGDs with community groups and mixed-methods programme evaluations.
Experience relevant to rural and resilience research.
GRC's public portfolio includes endline and terminal evaluations focused on food security, household livelihoods, resilience, climate adaptation and community development, including work in pastoral and agro-pastoral settings and conflict- and drought-affected regions of Ethiopia.
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Field operations across dispersed rural samples.
Rural surveys require careful planning around travel distance, settlement patterns, respondent availability, local languages, road access and seasonal conditions. GRC develops realistic deployment plans and uses locally appropriate field teams where feasible, supported by central training, supervision and quality standards.
Digital and qualitative evidence in one workflow.
Quantitative data can be collected using GPS-enabled tablet systems, while KIIs and FGDs help explain why outcomes differ across locations and population groups. This allows international partners to combine standardized indicators with contextual interpretation.
Frequently asked questions
Frequently asked questions.
Can agriculture surveys include qualitative work with institutions and market actors?
Yes. KIIs and FGDs can be integrated with farmer or enterprise surveys to examine services, markets, implementation constraints and system-level influences.
Can GRC implement a standardized multi-country agriculture survey?
Yes. GRC can work from a global protocol and client-provided script while handling local planning, training, translation, fieldwork and quality assurance in Ethiopia.
Need an Ethiopia partner for agriculture, food security or climate fieldwork?
Send the scope, sample and proposed geography for a practical implementation discussion.