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...many kids that I knew felt that way. And when I worked in the University of Chicago, I saw kids like me who were using their loan money to help their parents pay the electric bill, and therefore they'd run out of money for books and couldn't feed themselves over the course of the semester. I saw those kids, right, but they didn't have a parent that said, "Do not look this way with your education money; you go to school, you learn, you grow...
...thrived in college, but their parents didn't believe in going into debt to pay for it. "I saw kids like me who were using their loan money to help their parents pay the electric bill, and therefore they'd run out of money for books and couldn't feed themselves over the course of the semester ... So I just keep thinking about those kids who are missing opportunities by a hair, by a breath, by a parent, by a teacher, by a dollar amount, and I'm kind of working to make up some of that difference...
Odiambo's demonstration plots are an opening salvo in a battle between two very different agricultural philosophies. The goal itself is not in dispute: a healthier, wealthier Africa, one that can feed itself and perhaps even export. Both sides also agree that the solution should be green. The disagreement lies over just what that word means. (See pictures of Africa under water...
...model is the village of Sauri, a short walk from Odiambo's shop, where seed and fertilizer supplied by Columbia University's Millennium Promise has allowed farmers to reclaim soils that were depleted or weed-infested, expanding cultivated land by 50% and quadrupling maize production. Growers who struggled to feed their families now enjoy surpluses. Within three years, most could afford to buy the inputs themselves...
...with India's giant Tata conglomerate, while France's Carrefour is said to be in talks with Reliance - Jain says Wal-Mart is in no hurry to unfurl the Wal-Mart flag nationally. "The easiest thing is to roll out stores, but the most difficult is to sustain and feed them," he says...