Central to Africa Harvest’s technical programs is a strong focus on strengthening Africa’s human and infrastructural capacity in order to empower the continent’s scientists and research facilities to effectively provide farmers the much-needed support they deserve.
Africa Harvest has worked with national agricultural research institutes in Eastern, Southern and Western Africa helping to extend laboratory facilities, and supporting the training several scientists in world-class organizations in Africa and other parts of the world.
Africa Harvest’s Technology deployment program is where as they say, the rubber meets the road. This is where new and improved technologies are moved into small-holder farmers’ hands, and farmers are taught how to apply the new/improved technologies to improve crop yields.
Communications
Africa Harvest’s communication program’s goal is to support achievement of the organisation’s goals and objectives. The program develops communication strategies to help the organization and its components projects achieve their objectives such as technology deployment to small-holder farmers and fundraising.
The communication program is pivotal in building and maintaining relationships with partner organizations and targeted audiences including farmers, policy makers and donors. The cornerstone of this communication function is providing information in the correct format and in line with each stakeholder’s needs in order to increase their understanding and knowledge on the power of science for Africa’s food security, poverty alleviation and development.  
Africa Harvest’s communication team produces scientific and popular reports documenting the organization’s activities. The team also produces publicity and advocacy materials including issue-driven policy briefs, brochures and other promotional materials. For farmers, the communication team works with scientists and technical staff to produce informational posters, guidelines and manuals on new technologies and techniques being introduced to clarify the knowledge required for effective technology adoption.
The team is at the centre of organizing events for the organization, as well as supporting Africa Harvest’s participation in events external to the organization such as conferences. They produce posters, exhibits and other materials that raise the organization’s presence in key events, as well as help articulate the organization’s vision and goals in one-on-one encounters.
The media is a key partner that has immensely helped Africa Harvest achieve many of its successes to date. Africa Harvest works with both mainstream and community media, including vernacular media, to reach out to farmers and convey vital information that is increasing farm production and farmer incomes. Africa Harvest develops a variety of tools and creates opportunities that assist journalists to report effectively on agriculture. The organization invests in training journalists on new technologies so that they understand and convey the correct information to farmers.
The communications program further trains Africa’s scientists on new technologies and the value of strengthening agricultural communication for faster technology deployment and adoption. This ensures that farmers, journalists and other stakeholders easily and readily get the information they seek in the course of their work.
Africa Harvest’s communication program has created a highly functional linkage between scientists and farmers resulting in exemplary adoption of the tissue culture banana technology in Kenya.