Digital platforms are changing how individuals around the world find work, and how entrepreneurs, enterprises and farmers connect with markets.

The Platform Livelihoods Project, represented by the eleven studies appearing in this volume (with more to follow in 2024) set out to explore two broad questions:

- What are the experiences of individual workers and sellers as they rely on platforms to earn a living? and,
- What are the opportunities to improve those experiences?

Caribou Digital defines platform livelihoods as the ways people earn a living by working, trading, renting, and creating in digital marketplaces. Our studies demonstrate how “platform livelihoods” are more fractional, more social, more trade-focused, and more numerous than gig work alone. In some markets, one worker in five relies on a platform, for at least some of their livelihood.

This episode explores the themes in Chapter 7: Social agriculture.

Download the book: www.cariboudigital.net/2023/12/platform-livelihoods-book/