Our mission
Safeguarding African food security through climate resilient seed choice.
Safeguarding African food security by helping farmers choose drought and climate resilient seed varieties, so more harvests still yield in a warming environment.
The problem is distribution, not discovery
Institutes including IAR Zaria, IITA, NCRI and NRCRI have spent decades breeding crop varieties for exactly the conditions African farmers now face: shorter seasons, mid season dry spells, higher temperatures, and heavy pest pressure. Those varieties exist. Many are certified and available.
What does not exist, for most farmers, is a way to find out which of them suits a particular field. So the default is to plant what was planted last year, in a climate that is no longer last year’s climate, and food security pays the price when the harvest fails.
CropX is an attempt to make that decision legible: to take a location, a soil, and a crop, and return a shortlist of drought and climate resilient varieties with the reasoning attached. Not to sell seed, and not to replace the agronomists who do the work that software cannot.
How the pieces connect
Warming and unreliable rains → poorly matched seed → lost yield and household food risk → the right variety for zone, soil, and season → a more reliable harvest. That is the theory of change behind every recommendation.
CropX contributes to SDG 2 (Zero Hunger) and SDG 13 (Climate Action) by improving planting decisions under climate stress.
What we are deliberately not doing
Boundaries that keep recommendations about food security rather than about margin or data extraction.
Not selling seed
CropX takes no commission and stocks nothing. That is what lets a recommendation be about agronomy and food security rather than about margin.
Benefit: Advice without a sales commission
Not collecting farmer data
The advisor runs entirely in your browser. There is no account, and nothing you enter is transmitted or stored.
Benefit: No account, nothing stored
Not claiming certainty
The resilience scores in this preview are estimates, and we say so on every result. Overstated confidence in agricultural advice costs farmers harvests.
Benefit: Honest limits on every shortlist
Common questions
Open the Seed Advisor
Four questions about your farm, and a ranked shortlist of climate resilient varieties.
Open the Seed Advisor