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ProvisionGard™: Insect - Blocking Package Technology

ProvisionGard™ : Protects your products, protect your brand. ProvisionGard™ is an integrated postharvest technology that can be incorporated into food packaging systems to reduce stored-product insect infestation and food losses in staple-food value chains. It can be considered for programmes focused on food security, postharvest loss reduction, resilient food supply chains, and sustainable access to safe packaged foods, with evidence from a six-month commercial trial in Kenya involving 120,000 maize flour packets.

Pre-validated 8•8

4

RiceMoRe: Digital rice activity monitoring and reporting system

A digital solution for monitoring and reporting rice activities RiceMoRe is a web- and mobile-based digital system for monitoring rice production activities across programme intervention areas. It standardizes and georeferences field data to track production progress and farming practices across locations, visualize and compare results, and provide traceable information for programme monitoring, sustainability initiatives, and greenhouse gas emissions monitoring.

Pre-validated 8•9

5

Livestock Feed Pelleting: Small-scale feed production using local agricultural by-products

Farm-to-Feed Innovation: Turning local by-products into affordable, high-quality livestock feed Small-scale Feed Production Using Local Agricultural By-products provides an adaptable approach for strengthening livestock feed security by transforming locally available agricultural and agro-industrial resources into nutritionally balanced feed. It combines locally adapted formulations, capacity building, and appropriately selected processing equipment, allowing feed production systems to be tailored to local resources, infrastructure, energy access, and production needs. Implemented through different production and service configurations in Tunisia, Mali, Ethiopia, and Yemen, the technology supports productive use of agricultural by-products, decentralized feed production, local enterprise development, and reduced pressure on grazing resources. Its adaptability provides a scalable solution for strengthening the resilience of livestock-dependent communities to seasonal and climate-induced feed shortages.

Pre-validated 9•8

6

FarmRise: Digital Platform for Advisory and Crop Management

Expert farming solutions at your fingertips FarmRise is a digital platform that supports the delivery of agricultural advisory and input-related services by connecting farmers with agricultural advisors, input providers, agrodealers, and other value chain actors. The platform enables farmer registration, personalized agronomic advisory, localized weather forecasting, AI-powered crop disease diagnosis, product verification, and access to digital agricultural information, helping improve farming decisions and strengthen the delivery of agricultural services at scale. By generating and maintaining digital farmer and farm records, FarmRise enhances data availability, farmer engagement, and evidence-based service delivery. Designed to operate through a mobile application, it extends access to trusted agricultural information and digital farming services to rural and underserved communities while supporting more productive, climate-resilient, and sustainable agricultural development.

Pre-validated 9•9

8

Integrated Orobanche Management on Faba bean: Resistant Faba Bean and Low-Dose Herbicide Package

Restoring faba bean productivity by defeating Orobanche. Integrated Orobanche Management (IOM) is a sustainable and climate-resilient agricultural innovation that helps smallholder farmers reclaim Orobanche-infested land and restore faba bean production. The technology combines improved genetics, targeted crop protection, and integrated management practices to enhance livelihoods, strengthen food security, and promote sustainable land management. It particularly benefits women and resource-poor farming households while contributing to resilient agricultural systems and supporting the achievement of SDGs related to poverty reduction, zero hunger, climate action, and partnerships.

Pre-validated 9•9

4

TOKYO8: Microbial Soil Health Activator for Enhanced Crop Productivity

Activating Soil Life for Sustainable Productivity Developed by Taiyo Yuka Co., Ltd. (Japan), a specialist in microbial resource recycling and environmental technologies since 1963, TOKYO8 was created to restore degraded soils and address declining agricultural productivity through beneficial microorganisms. The technology rebuilds soil biological activity, improves nutrient availability, and restores soil fertility, supporting climate-resilient agricultural production and sustainable food systems. Since its introduction in Africa in 2021, TOKYO8 has expanded through partnerships to more than 13 African countries, demonstrating the potential of nature-based soil restoration to improve food security, strengthen farmers' resilience, and support sustainable rural livelihoods. By restoring soil health and increasing the productivity of degraded agricultural land, the technology contributes to long-term agricultural transformation while helping development programs achieve lasting environmental and socio-economic impact.

Pre-validated 8•8

5

FeSeRWAM: Fertilizer and Seed Recommendations Map for West Africa

FeSeRWAM, Smart Recommendations to Optimize Your Farming Practices! FeSeRWAM is a digital platform that helps users choose the best seeds, fertilizers, and agricultural practices suited to their crops and local farming conditions. It helps development partners design and implement more effective agricultural projects by providing reliable recommendations for different agricultural zones. The platform enables better targeting of project activities, strengthens advisory services for farmers, and promotes the efficient use of agricultural inputs. By promoting evidence-based decision-making, FeSeRWAM contributes to sustainable agricultural development and improved outcomes for farmers.

Pre-validated 8•9

4

e-pineA: Digital Supply Chain Solution for Pineapple Market Access and Traceability

e-pineA is the ideal solution to facilitate market access for agricultural products and reduce post-harvest losses e-pineA provides an inclusive digital solution that improves market access for smallholder farmers, particularly women and youth, while promoting sustainable and climate-smart agricultural practices. The platform reduces post-harvest losses, strengthens farmer capacity through training and technical support, and facilitates data-driven planning for programs aiming to improve food security, income generation, and value chain efficiency. Development partners can use e-pineA to scale interventions, monitor impact, and support gender and youth inclusion in the agricultural sector.

Pre-validated 9•9

7

Nutusweetleaves: Consumption of sweet potato leaves as relish for Nutrition and food security

Edible Sweetpotato Leaves for Food Security Nutusweetleaves contributes to improving household and community nutrition by providing nutrient-rich leaves that complement roots, particularly benefiting children, pregnant and lactating women, and vulnerable households. Homestead and community garden production ensures year-round availability, even under drought conditions, while capacity building for farmers and extension workers supports proper cultivation, harvesting, and nutrition-sensitive preparation. By integrating this technology into food security, nutrition, and climate adaptation programs, development partners can enhance dietary diversity, empower women smallholders, reduce food waste, and strengthen climate-smart agriculture practices.

Pre-validated 9•9

4

My Farm Trees: A Digital Platform for Inclusive and Resilient Landscape Restoration

Digital transparency and incentives for resilient landscape restoration My Farm Trees (MFT) is a digital platform that supports the restoration of forest landscapes by ensuring complete traceability, from seed collection to tree growth, using blockchain technology. It combines three mobile applications dedicated to seed collection, nursery management, and planting monitoring. Connected to a central dashboard, it guarantees quality control and data verification and facilitates digital payments to reward those involved in restoration. Developed by the Bioversity International Alliance and CIAT, MFT promotes the use of local species, improves livelihoods, and contributes to climate resilience. After Cameroon and Kenya, the platform is now being extended to other countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.

Pre-validated 9•9

5

AWD: Alternate Wetting and Drying Irrigation System

Dry Out the Methane. Green Up Your Harvest. Alternate Wetting and Drying (AWD) is an easy, low-cost water-saving method for growing rice. Instead of keeping the rice field continuously flooded, farmers let the field dry out for several days between irrigations. The timing is guided by a simple field water tube (often bamboo or a PVC pipe) installed in the paddy. When the water level inside this tube drops to 15 cm below the soil surface, it is time to irrigate again. This alternating cycle cuts water use by about 25–30%, and helps reduce methane (a powerful greenhouse gas). By using AWD, farmers save money on irrigation costs (less pumping or water fees) while producing the same amount of rice, making them more resilient to water scarcity.

Validated

5

Physical and visual diagnosis: Identification of Fall Armyworm

Spot the Pest, Stop the Damage For development agencies, FAW identification capacity is a critical empowerment tool. Projects integrate FAW ID modules into farmer field schools and training-of-trainers programs using simple, pictorial guides. This demystifies the pest, ensuring even farmers with limited literacy can identify FAW’s eggs, larvae, and early damage symptoms. The result is greater resilience: communities gain local ownership of pest identification, empowering farmers (including women and youth) to act as “pest scouts” who can flag FAW presence before it devastates crops. This local competency enhances the effectiveness of all subsequent management interventions.

Pre-validated 9•9

5

BID Tool: Digital platform for Business Investment Decision

Turning business ideas into investment-ready plans! The BID Tools offers a standardized, evidence-based methodology to strengthen the financial capacity of agribusiness actors. For development institutions, it is a scalable tool to integrate into programs supporting entrepreneurship, investment readiness, and inclusive agribusiness growth.

Pre-validated 7•7

6

SRE: Seed Requirement Estimation Tool for Sweetpotato

Optimize Seed Supply with SRE! The SRE Tool supports NGOs, humanitarian organizations, and development agencies in designing seed interventions that are data-driven, cost-effective, and impactful. It helps quantify seed gaps, guide donor investments, and ensure that farmers receive timely access to improved planting material.

Pre-validated 9•7

3

Farmbetter: 3-in-1 Digital Advisory Platform

Smart farming support—anytime, anywhere. farmbetter is a proven digital advisory platform that drives climate-smart agriculture, gender inclusion, and environmental regeneration. By combining personalized farmer advice, digitized extension services, and real-time monitoring, development programs can scale sustainable practices rapidly while tracking behavior change and impact. The platform is active in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, and has been adopted by projects funded by SDC, GIZ, and other global donors. It enables cost-effective implementation, evidence-based learning, and wide-scale farmer empowerment.

Pre-validated 9•8

8

Leaf-bud Cuttings: Rapid Yam Multiplication Method

Yam leaf-bud cuttings, rapid quality seed production! The Leaf-bud Cuttings system offers a transformative, low-cost, and climate-smart solution to improve smallholder access to quality seed yam, directly addressing issues of food insecurity, low yields, and vulnerability to shocks. By reducing seed costs and disease spread, and freeing up food-grade tubers for consumption and trade, this method contributes to productivity, resilience, and income growth in rural communities. It is highly scalable, inclusive (suitable for women and youth), and effective in both stable and fragile contexts. Supporting its adoption aligns with development goals around sustainable agriculture, livelihoods, and climate adaptation.

Pre-validated 9•7

4

PlantwisePlus Knowledge Bank: Crop health management library

Knowledge, resources, and tools for plant health! The Crop Health Knowledge Library provides scalable, evidence-based tools to enhance agricultural projects. It supports farmer training, builds local capacity, and offers content tailored to diverse regions and crops, helping development programs deliver measurable impact in plant health, food security, and climate resilience.

Pre-validated 9•9

4

Demi-lune method: Rainwater harvesting method

Catch the Rain, Grow with the Grain! The Demi-lune (half-moon) technology is a simple land restoration method used mainly in arid and semi-arid regions. By digging semi-circular pits to capture rainwater and restore soil fertility, it tackles land degradation, water scarcity, and low productivity. First used in Burkina Faso in the 1980s, it has spread to Niger, Mali, Chad, and Senegal. Suitable for millet, sorghum, and legumes, it boosts yields and soil health, helps farmers adapt to climate change, and supports SDGs like No Poverty and Climate Action.

Validated (TAAT1) 9•9

6

Cassava virus indexing: Molecular diagnostics for cassava seed health certification

Virus diagnostic tool for cassava seed health certification by seed producers and seed certifiers. Cassava virus indexing uses PCR and LAMP diagnostic methods to detect and eliminate virus-infected cassava planting materials. It ensures virus-free plants for seed production, improving seed quality, crop resilience, and food security. Key costs include lab setup (USD 20,000) and sample testing (USD 3/sample). Training for staff and collaboration with research and seed certification bodies are crucial for successful implementation.

Pre-validated 9•8

3

Capacity Building Strategies on Cassava Seed System

From Knowledge to Yield — Empowering Cassava Seed Systems. The Building Capacity technology aims to strengthen cassava seed systems by addressing capacity gaps among seed producers. It provides a comprehensive toolkit with training resources, business development tools, and partnership frameworks to enhance technical skills, market access, and regulatory collaboration. The technology promotes sustainable seed production, boosts productivity, and ensures seed quality. Key activities include capacity assessments, tailored training curricula, and stakeholder collaboration. By improving seed systems, it supports economic growth, food security, and climate resilience, benefiting seed producers and farmers alike.

Pre-validated 9•8

4

Cassava Seed Field Multiplication Protocol

From planting to certification—seed production made simple. The Cassava Seed Field Multiplication Protocol is a standardized agricultural method that enables the field-based production of high-quality cassava planting material. It combines clean seed sources, agronomic best practices, regulatory compliance, and digital tools to support certified cassava seed production by seed companies, farmers, and institutions.

Pre-validated 9•9

4

eProd: Digital Agriculture Supply Chain Platform

Structure, Trace, Scale & Connect with Solutions eProd is a digital supply chain management platform designed for agriculture. It helps organizations register farmers, monitor production, ensure traceability, and manage payments efficiently. The system is modular, works offline, and integrates easily with other digital tools.

Pre-validated 9•7

9

Improved Cassava Varieties: Market-driven cassava breeding and promotion system

Improved cassava varieties crucial for enhancing food security, increasing farmer incomes, and reducing poverty in Africa. The technology is a market-driven cassava breeding system that develops improved varieties based on market needs, such as for fresh consumption, processing, or biofortification. It involves stakeholder input, standard breeding methods, and regulatory collaboration for variety release. Adoption is promoted through trials, launch events, and media campaigns, aligning breeding with market demand to boost cassava productivity and value chain performance.

Pre-validated 9•9

6

Crop Sprayer App: Dosage calculator for plant protection products

Optimizing Pesticide Application for Sustainable Agriculture CABI's Crop Sprayer App is a digital tool designed to assist agricultural advisors, NGOs, and development agencies in promoting efficient and safe pesticide use among smallholder farmers. By calculating precise pesticide quantities, the app supports Integrated Pest Management (IPM) strategies, contributing to sustainable agricultural practices.

Pre-validated 9•7

3

Biological control of mango mealybug

Natural Allies for Mango Mealybug Control This technology provides an effective, cost-efficient intervention to protect mango value chains in Africa. The release and establishment of two parasitoid species—Gyranusoidea tebygi and Anagyrus mangicola—has shown a dramatic impact in reducing mango mealybug populations, leading to increased yields and farm income. With research costs already covered, the expansion to new countries requires only modest investments in rearing and monitoring. This intervention aligns with sustainable agriculture goals, reduces pesticide use, and strengthens the resilience of smallholder farming systems.

Pre-validated 9•7

4

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