The program aims to deliver modern agricultural technologies and methods to the subsistence farmers of the region. However, making the decision to train millions of farmers, and actually training them are two very different things.

In order to reach the largest number of people possible, we found that it was most effective to work with countries' agricultural extension programs. Agricultural extension is a process through which workers from governmental agencies disperse throughout a country in order to educate farmers in up-to-date knowledge and scientific methods.

One limitation to these systems is the large number of qualified extension workers required to reach enough farmers to actually make a difference in the nation's food security. While the sub-Saharan region boasts more than 150,000 of these educators, the number with university degrees has been abysmally low. The majority enter the field with a weak grasp of agricultural science and poor communications skills. Worse, of those who succeed in their jobs, few are able to rise to management positions because of a lack of formal training. The way that we decided to overcome this limitation is simple. We set about training more of these workers. Then we trained them better.