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

Global and US Trends in Agricultural R&D in a Global Food Security Setting

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.

Cattle density (head/sq. km) (2005)

Cattle density per grid cell (in 2005). (aggregation type: WGHTD)

Measuring the Global Occurrence and Probabilistic Consequences of Wheat Stem Rust

This technical note describes the methods and data sources used to generate the results
reported in Pardey et al. (2013).

Agricultural Innovation: The United States in a Changing Global Reality

This report looks at the processes of agricultural innovation and the role of R&D in increasing agricultural productivity.

Potential Impact of Investments in Drought Tolerant Maize in Africa

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.

Sub-national Poverty and Extreme Poverty Prevalence

Estimated poverty measures at '05 PPP $1.25/day and $2/day international poverty lines. These measures are now available for 24 countries in sub-Saharan Africa at the province or district level.

Right-Sizing Stem-Rust Research

We estimate global wheat losses over the past 50 years absent investments in research to limit impacts of stem rust and discuss how this can inform decisions about “right-sizing” research investments.

Travel Time to Market Centers

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