At A Glance

HarvestChoice generates knowledge products to help guide strategic investments to improve the well-being of poor people in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia through more productive and profitable farming. To do this, a novel and spatially explicit evaluation framework is being developed and deployed. By design, primary knowledge products are currently targeted to the needs of investors, policymakers and program managers, as well as the analysts and technical specialists who support them. Most decisions that HarvestChoice targets are those having implications that cut across country boundaries.

Key Questions Being Addressed

• Where are the poor and what is their welfare status?
• On what cropping systems do the poor most depend?
• What is the extent and severity of the constraints to the productivity of those systems?
• What present or prospective investments in technologies and practices might best address those constraints?
• What is the magnitude and distribution of potential payoffs to the poor from different investment targeting strategies?

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