Reaching Cape Verdean Farmers Through CATI

Agricultural research and monitoring in Cabo Verde come with challenges shaped by the country's island geography, limited arable land, scarce water resources, and highly variable rainfall. Farming communities are spread across different islands and often combine crop production with livestock keeping and other livelihood activities.

This is where Computer-Assisted Telephone Interviewing (CATI) becomes a practical solution. Rather than relying entirely on repeated field visits between islands and rural communities, CATI allows researchers to maintain direct contact with farmers through structured telephone interviews.

Supporting Agricultural Research, Monitoring and Evaluation

For M&E and baseline studies, CATI helps researchers and organizations to:

• Reach farmers and agricultural households across different islands
• Reduce the logistical demands of repeated field visits
• Collect information on water access, production and agricultural livelihoods
• Follow up with respondents to measure changes over the course of a programme

Agricultural households in Cabo Verde operate within an environment where water availability and climate conditions can significantly influence what they are able to produce. Telephone interviews allow researchers to capture these experiences directly from farmers, including how they are adapting their farming activities, accessing support and managing household livelihoods. CATI also makes it easier to return to the same respondents during monitoring exercises, creating a more consistent picture of how agricultural interventions are performing over time.

Across Cabo Verde, organizations can use CATI for:

• Agricultural baseline and endline surveys
• Monitoring of farmer support programmes
• Agricultural water, irrigation and food security research
• Household livelihood and agricultural impact assessments

At CATI Africa, we help governments, NGOs, development partners, agribusinesses and research institutions collect dependable agricultural data through professionally managed telephone surveys. Our CATI solutions support monitoring and evaluation, strengthen programme accountability and provide direct insights from agricultural households to inform better decisions around farming, food security, water access and rural livelihoods across Cabo Verde.