If you haven’t yet, please look over our Mission Statement and Vision Statement before reading this document.

Accessibility + Incentivization = Adoption

Focus on the farmer! In order of importance:

1. Build a clean, accessible UI that farmers can pick up and use to run their farms (e.g. Simplicity > Robustness)

2. Help our farmers make a living! Using LiteFarm allows farmers to:

   1. Understand the finances on their farm, including:

      1. Crop-by-crop profitability

      2. When to sell based on seasonal fluctuations in crop price

   2. Get paid for their environmental services (PES)

      1. Where possible, integrate with PES providers to make the process seamless

      2. Where impossible, export relevant data to make the process easier

   3. Record as much of the data they need for your certification (Organic or otherwise) as possible

      1. Where possible, integrate with certifiers to make the process seamless

      2. Where impossible, export relevant data to make the process easier

3. Give farmers the access to expert knowledge and tools they need to run a successful farm! LiteFarm participates in and integrates with open source consortia to:

   1. Pre-populate as much of the app with existing data and ontologies (e.g. seeds, varieties, implements, methods, etc.) as possible to satisfy #1 and suggest best approaches to farmers

   2. Outsource the heavy lifting / modelling / calculations to other open source software services (see https://lite-farm.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/LITEFARM/pages/1703965 for a more complete listing) dedicated to that domain (e.g. LandPKS for soil health, Cool Farm Tool for GHGs, etc.) and give the farmers the insights they need to make the right choices for their farm

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