Facts about African Agriculture:

The world is like a child's bedroom. For many
kids, picking up after themselves just does not
come naturally. The clothes pile up, the
cockroaches come out, and a strange odor begins
to emanate from beneath the closet door.
Parents yell about laziness but this trait is,
perhaps, the most natural thing in the world.
It is the side of us that yearns for the
creature comforts, that wants to be fed and
then to sleep. Within the home, it is a cause
of tension.

On a global scale, things often get so out of balance that people
cannot fix the problems themselves. When this happens, governments
need to act. However, even governments have limitations. Budgets
and manpower must be divided up among innumerable pressing issues.
Infrastructure. Education. Security. Public health. The list is
endless. For this reason, the ability of the country to act in
desperate situations is often severely limited.

This is where international aid organizations come into play. These
groups, while often having comparatively small budgets, have the
ability to focus their resources down to one problem. Depending on
both the amount of these resources and on the skills of the
allocating group, the organization can experience phenomenal
success or miserable failure. Sasakawa-Global 2000 (SG2000) is one
of those whose success is so brilliant that it is beginning to
solve a centuries-old problem in Africa--starvation.

SG2000 is a perfect blend of three parties--The Nippon
Foundation, Sasakawa Africa Association, and The Carter Center.
Thanks to this union, the genius of Nobel Laureate Dr. Norman
Borlaug's advances in the field of food production technology have
been brought to bear in Africa. In areas where SG2000 has been
active, crop yields have increased two- and three-fold. If this
program helps to change Africa's cycle of poverty and famine, the
makeup of the entire world will be different in the centuries to
come.