Five are commercial ventures, including the overall winner, Bioneedle, and a Kenya-based social enterprise, Backpack Farm Agriculture Program, which sells tools and products like seeds and drip irrigation equipment to small commercial farmers in East Africa.

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The ritual combines knowledge of agriculture, food processing, handicrafts (costumes, tools and musical instruments) and the construction of houses and fishing dams.

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The training was divided into six models and focused on water resources assessment, integrated water resources management tools and methodologies, integrated water resources management in agriculture and GIS in integrated water resources management.

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But the younger Castro's hoped-for economic reforms have so far been limited to agriculture farmers have been allowed to take over fallow state land and buy their own tools.

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