HarvestChoice 2.0! Learn more about our new look...

Discover our new Web Portal with more rapid access to data and information tools, documents and analyses to support agriculture policy and... Read More

VIDEO: The Hallmarks of HarvestChoice

HarvestChoice's cofounders discuss the signature aspects of our approach to more productive and profitable farming in Sub-Saharan Africa.

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ReSAKSS & HC bring practitioners together in Nairobi

Just wrapped an excellent three days of training and feedback with agricultural research and policy practitioners from East and Central Africa.... Read More

VIDEO: R&D in Africa: Why it matters to the rest of us

The Gates Foundation's Prabhu Pingali and HarvestChoice's Phil Pardey at Stanford, on why African agricultural productivity is a global concern.... Read More

How do we *sustainably* address global food insecurity?

Two newly released reports, contributed to by HarvestChoice, address the twin questions of measuring and addressing global hunger.

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VIDEO: Tracking pest threats... before they arrive

We're pioneering a new way of pest modeling for the global agricultural sector. Watch this video overview, and dig into our working paper.

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Highlights

The National Research Council's Science and Technology for Sustainability Program hosted two workshops in 2011 addressing the sustainability challenges associated with food security for all.

In recent decades, we have witnessed in most countries a slowdown in the rate of growth in spending on agricultural Research and Development (R&D) — especially R&D oriented to enhancing farm productivity.

The study evaluates the potential impacts of the Drought Tolerant Maize for Africa (DTMA) project run by CIMMYT and the International Institute for Tropical Agriculture (IITA) in 13 countries of eastern, southern and West Africa: Angola, Benin, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Nigeria, Tanzania, Uganda, ambia, and Zimbabwe and Ghana.

This is a range of maps of accessibility to market centers of varying sizes in Africa.

HarvestChoice provides data, information and tools to support strategic investment decisions in agriculture.