Private Partnerships in Action

• We are demand driven by our clients – we listen to client needs first • We design our technologies through co-creation • We engage the private sector as scaling partners • Our timelines are short because client needs are immediate and real • Our ultimate metric of success is autonomous uptake and deployment of our technologies • The private sector is essential to successful scaling as they have systems in place to bring new technologies to market through large and organized networks of farmers and input providers

SAYeTECH – scaling partner for the SIL MultiCrop Thresher in West Africa – 5,000 Ghanaian end-users

Pyxus – scaling partner for the Pan-African Soybean Variety Trials – 300,000 African growers, 10,000 Malawian growers

Cottfield East Africa Ltd. – scaling partner for the SMART Farm bundle rollout – 30,000 Ugandan growers

Good Nature Agro – scaling partner for the PanAfrican Soybean Variety Trials and SMART Farm bundle rollout – 15,000 Zambian growers

First Wave Group – scaling partner for SIL MultiCrop Thresher – 2,000 Zambian growers

Japan Tobacco International – scaling partner for the Pan-African Soybean Variety Trials and SMART Farm bundle rollout – 110,000 Malawian growers

Horizon Farming Ltd. – scaling partner for the SMART Farm bundle rollout – 20,000 Malawian growers

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