The African Agricultural Technology Foundation (AATF) facilitates the transfer of appropriate proprietary technology, held by private and public organisations 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 organisations in industrialised 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 utilisation of proprietary agricultural technologies.