The African Agricultural Technology Foundation (AATF) facilitates the transfer of appropriate proprietary technology, held by private and public organizations in the North and South, for use by smallholder African farmers. AATF serves as an honest broker in negotiating the royalty-free transfer of technologies held by public and private organizations in industrialized and developing countries to smallholder farmers in SSA. AATF does this by establishing partnerships along the product value chain, from basic research through adaptive research and development, and product deployment. It provides expertise and know-how that facilitates access to, and development, delivery and utilization of proprietary agricultural technologies.