AUDA-NEPAD drives continental development through science, technology, and innovation. As a key policy and coordination body, it supports African countries in building regulatory frameworks, strengthening biosafety systems, and promoting responsible genome editing through initiatives like the African Biosafety Network of Expertise (ABNE).

The Africa Harvest Biotech Foundation International (Africa Harvest), established in 2002, is a globally recognized organization registered in the USA, Kenya, South Africa, Canada, and Zambia, with its headquarters located in Nairobi, Kenya. For over 20 years, Africa Harvest has promoted adoption of sustainable agricultural innovations, benefiting over 2 million smallholder households through various interventions, across 22 African countries, including Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Burundi, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Cameroon, Malawi, Ghana, Burkina Faso, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), South Africa, Madagascar, Mozambique, Rwanda, Mauritius, Egypt, Tunisia, Morocco, Senegal, Zimbabwe and Zambia.

Guided by its 5-year Strategic Plan (2023–2027), Africa Harvest aims to reach 10 million beneficiaries across East, West, Southern, and Central Africa. The organization utilizes a holistic value chain approach to enhance farmers’, increase food production and productivity, improve nutritional security, enhance climate resilience and increase incomes. Its key focus areas include integrated value chain development, deployment of improved crop and livestock technologies, climate-smart agriculture, gender equity and inclusion, youth empowerment, and sustainable natural resource management.

With a robust governance framework and a network of strategic partnerships, Africa Harvest delivers innovative and scalable solutions that drive long-term agricultural transformation, ensuring food security and sustainable livelihoods for rural communities.

AGTECH Consulting Ltd (AGTECH), is a Private Limited by Shares Company, incorporated in Kenya by the Registrar of Companies in 2020 under the Companies Act, 2015. The objective of AGTECH is to provide technical guidance, advisory services and strategic planning and leadership to national and international organizations access the African region and markets with their innovative products, technologies and services.

Specifically, AGTECH, on behalf of its clients, will scout and document the regulatory landscape, search for, hold consultations, and secure a partnership with a local entity or third-party, to either solely or through a third-party, develop, submit, defend and secure application permits for import and field-testing, conduct and coordinate field trials and carry out product registration in target African countries. Depending on a product and Client’s specific request, AGTECH will design and provide initial regulatory roadmap, product testing protocols and test results, deployment and commercialization pathways, product stewardship plans, robust communication plans, product promotional strategies, and a bunch of other services for rapid product uptake and diffusion.

AGTECH’s team is composed of individuals with proven track records and nationally/internationally renowned in designing, implementing, managing, deploying and commercializing innovative products and technologies in Africa that arise from multi-disciplinary and multi-cultural programs. Products so far in AGTECH’s portfolio are, but not limited to, proprietary bio-fertilizers, plant growth regulators, bio-stimulants, bio-pesticides, crop varieties, effective management of pre- and post-harvest insect pests of agricultural and public health importance, storage and post-harvest handling technologies and targeted capacity building of organizations.

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation supports global health and development innovations, including genome editing research that addresses food insecurity and disease burden in Africa. Through strategic funding and partnerships, the foundation accelerates scientific breakthroughs and ensures equitable access to transformative technologies.