HarvestPlus Solutions helps small-scale farmers produce nutritious crops and build economic value along the way — connecting them to seed companies, local buyers and markets that reward healthier harvests, sustainably.
Scaling Nutrition Through Farmers
HarvestPlus Solutions helps small-scale farmers produce nutritious crops and build economic value along the way — connecting them to seed companies, local buyers and markets that reward healthier harvests, sustainably.
Scaling Nutrition Through Farmers
Over 2.5 Billion People Can’t Afford a Healthy Diet
Malnutrition is one of the largest, most invisible threats to human life on the planet — a factor in nearly one in two child deaths under the age of five. It stunts growing bodies. It dulls developing minds. It keeps families trapped in cycles that have nothing to do with how hard they work.
Women and children’s lives are often hit hardest by malnutrition, even in places where the soil is good, farmers are skilled, and the solution is already in the ground.
Farmers are Already Growing the Answer
Small-scale farmers are the entrepreneurs, feeding their families and communities with limited land and resources. Recognizing their untapped potential, HarvestPlus Solutions supports the scaling of nutrient-rich crops such as iron beans, vitamin A maize, zinc wheat, and zinc rice — helping nutritious food grow in every farmer’s field and reach every family’s table.
PLANT
Nutrient-rich seeds, supplied by local seed companies, take root on the same farms families have always worked. No new land. No new tools. The same hands, growing more.
GROW
Crops that are richer in iron, zinc and vitamin A — with competitive yields and improved resilience as conventional varieties. Better food on the plate, and a stronger harvest to sell.
HARVEST
Every harvest carries a ripple effect: families nourished, children growing up healthier, neighbors fed at the market, and rural economies that hold their footing season after season.
Changing Lives, One Harvest at a Time
The work happens on farms, in classrooms, in mills, in markets. Here are some of the people growing the answer.
From Zero to 41 percent: Scaling Iron Bean in Zimbabwe
From Zero to 41 percent: Scaling Iron Bean in Zimbabwe
Biofortified Wheat Tackling Nutritional Deficiencies and Improving Livelihoods in Pakistan
Biofortified Wheat Tackling Nutritional Deficiencies and Improving Livelihoods in Pakistan
Equality by Design: How Collective Action Across Food Systems Is Empowering Women
Equality by Design: How Collective Action Across Food Systems Is Empowering Women
Our Impact at Scale
Twenty years of work, alongside HarvestPlus, has reached this much of the world so far. Each number is a community, a school, a kitchen, a child.
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People eating nutrient-rich crops
Pakistan
Zinc wheat nourishes Pakistan
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Farming households growing them today
Nigeria
2 million Nigerian farmers growing vitamin A maize
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Varieties released across 40+ countries
Bangladesh
Addressing malnutrition in Bangladesh
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Returned for every dollar invested
Africa
Reshaping school meals in East and Southern Africa
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Our Goal Is to Improve the Diets of 1 Billion People by 2030
651 million people reached today, about 65% of the goal of 1 billion people by 2030. 349 million to go.
Twelve Countries, One Shared Mission
HPS is active in eight African countries and in four South Asian markets. Each country programme works with local partners on the crops and channels that matter most there.
Invest in the Farmers Who Are Ending Malnutrition
Why invest in farmers?
When you help families grow more nutritious food, you transform lives. Addressing malnutrition through farmers helps solve many other challenges at the same time. Extreme poverty declines, vaccines become more effective, and diseases such as malaria and pneumonia become far less deadly. Investing in farmers creates lasting cycles of health and prosperity for future generations — without creating dependency.
What is your return on investment?
Every dollar invested helps farmers grow more nutritious food for their families and communities. And with every season of better harvests, more lives are transformed — in classrooms, in kitchens, and across communities around the world. Your support delivers measurable impact at extraordinary scale, making it one of the most cost-effective investments in global health and agriculture, with an estimated return of $17 for every $1 invested.
