The Technical Program conducts need-driven interventions that offer practical solutions to the challenges facing resource-poor smallholder farmers in rural communities throughout Africa. The program is designed around addressing the immediate challenges of hunger, poverty and malnutrition and finding longer-term solutions to sustainable development on large scale.

Interventions are based on the Whole Value Chain (WVC) strategy, giving support to production, product distribution and market linkages with a view to tilting benefits to the target communities.

The TC Banana Project is an example of a successful short-term intervention which demonstrates the power of science and technology to transform lives.  It has won global accolades as a model of successful rural community development.

The Africa Biofortified Sorghum (ABS) Project is an example of a longer-term intervention. This project forms part of Africa Harvest’s strategy for high-level of scientific research to develop improved crops that are needed in Africa.