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The mission of the Agricultural Technology Adoption Initiative (ATAI) is to rigorously test programs that increase farmer welfare through the broader use of productive technologies in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. We aim to generate a rigorous evidence base that helps carefully identify whether particular approaches are successful in spurring agricultural transformation. The ATAI Data Portal maximizes the value of this evidence base by providing access to harmonized datasets from the initiative portfolio. Because ATAI funds different principal investigators at different points in time, they employ a number of formats, coding schemes, and documentation for their work.  ATAI has undertaken the complicated work of harmonizing or making uniform this dataset portfolio to facilitate analysis across all ATAI-funded research projects. Additionally, ATAI links all datasets with a standard set of geographic variables to enable innovative geographical analysis.  The ATAI Data Portal is a public good that will increase in value over time as more open datasets from ATAI become available, and more researchers make use of the pooled data. The ATAI Data Portal is open-source and freely available.  The Agricultural Technology Adoption Initiative (ATAI), is co-managed by the Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA) and the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), with generous support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO).