Pre Congress Event
Africa's Best Seed Science Is Sitting on the Shelf
Hundreds of climate-resilient, high-yielding varieties. Decades of CGIAR and NARES research. And still, across East Africa, certified seed reaches just 10 to 20 percent of smallholder farmers growing staple crops. The science works. The connection doesn't.
Slow licensing. Fragmented regulation. Breeding priorities that miss what the market actually wants. The gap between lab and land isn't about better science, it's about better deals.
15th March 2027, we close it.
This Isn't a Conference. It's a Deal Room.
One day. One room. CGIAR centres, NARES, private seed companies, funders, and policymakers, all at the table to turn ready technologies into signed partnerships.
No passive panels. Real matchmaking. Real negotiation. Real deals.
Why You Need to Be There
- Research institutions: Your technologies, in front of the companies that can scale them
- Seed companies: First access to climate-ready genetics, before Congress crowds in.
- Funders & policymakers: See exactly where the innovation-adoption gap is being solved, and back it.
- Everyone: A faster road from breeding pipeline to planted field.
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Field Visits
The Congress Ends. The Real Proof Starts.
Three days of panels, pitches, and partnerships at Congress. Now step outside the conference room and into the field where it's actually happening. Kenya has spent years turning research into results, in breeding stations, seed plots, and Public-Private Partnerships that work. This is where delegates see it first-hand: real varieties, real seed systems, real commercialization pathways, not case studies on a slide.
Two Stops. Full Access.
1 · KALRO Tigoni Research Centre — Root & Tuber Crops Potato and sweet potato breeding, cassava research, disease management, and sustainable seed systems. Walk the fields, meet the breeders, ask the hard questions.
2 · KALRO Seed Headquarters — Cereals & Vegetables Demonstration plots across maize, wheat, sorghum, millet, rice, and vegetables, plus a first-hand look at how Public-Private Partnerships actually commercialize improved varieties.
Why Show Up
- Researchers & Breeders: Put your work in front of the companies and investors who can scale it.
- Seed Companies: See commercialization pathways that already work, not theory.
- Investors & Development Partners: Spot the next partnership before everyone else does.
- Everyone: Walk away with contacts, not just notes.
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