For instance, the African Agricultural Technology Foundation established a partnership with CIMMYT (the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center), the Kenya Agricultural Research Institute, BASF and NGOs to provide herbicide technology to Kenyan farmers. Because climate is a critical factor in applying agricultural technology in the field, NARS play a very important role in this process. The mechanism for distributing scientific knowledge and technology from the CGIAR system and Centers to farmers through NARS has been successful.