Africa Harvest Biotech Foundation International Inc

Programs: Sorghum for multiple uses the sorghum for multiple uses sorghum project is being implemented in kenya and tanzania. The goal is to improve the livelihoods of poor rural small-scale farming households by increasing sorghum productivity and incomes through establishment of a functional robust commercial value chain.

africa biofortified sorghum (abs)the africa biofortified sorghum project is currently (2014) funded by buffett foundation through dupont pioneer. The abs project was designed with the goal of developing technologies that would result in nutritionally enhanced transgenic sorghum varieties that could alleviate vitamin a, iron and zinc deficiencies in communities living in arid and semi-arid tropics of africa, especially children under three that rely upon sorghum as their staple diet. Sorghum grain nutritional profile is being enhanced with pro-vitamin a, zinc and iron micro nutrients. Over 300 million people in africa depend on sorghum as the main staple food and the project will address the challenge of food and nutritional security among the most vulnerable and marginalized communities in sub-saharan africa.

kenya horticultural competitiveness project: with funding support from the united states agency for international development (usaid), the goal of the project is to scale out the use of tissue culture banana in order to improve food security, incomes and the general livelihoods of the communities living in kisii and nyamira counties in kenya. Over 10,000 beneficiary households have been impacted using the whole value chain approach.