Many African governments still crave Israeli expertise for projects such as irrigation, but they are also after military and intelligence technology.
Today we have to look at technologies which impact operations, marketing, and efficient logistics that take us to new areas such as irrigation systems and recently-discovered ingredients.
"It combines the investments that MCC has made in many sub-Saharan African countries in agriculture and public infrastructure such as roads and irrigation to complement Agra's investments in providing the rural poor with seeds and fertilisers, " he told the BBC.
For example, technical assistance on the construction of storage facilities such as silos and warehouses, irrigation, roads and agricultural extension programs could be provided.
Alternative livelihoods such as ecotourism and fish farming could provide an alternative to intensive crop farming, while better management of crops and irrigation and the adoption of alternative energy sources such as solar power would all contribute to environmental sustainability.
It will take strong institutions at both the national and international levels to satisfy competing demands and defuse tension when it arises, such as over proposals for shale gas extraction, mass irrigation or dam construction.
These challenges include such acute development needs as installing piped drinking water for households, deploying high-quality irrigation systems with locally-accessible replacement parts, and using the latest mobile technologies for banking, sharing vital health data, paying salaries, and checking commodity prices.
There are relatively cheap ways to do this, such as constructing a building to face north-south in order to maximize sunlight or reusing rainwater in irrigation and plumbing systems.
As most of India's agricultural land depends on rainfall rather than irrigation, variations in monsoon's arrival date can throw into disarray plans for sowing summer crops such as rice, sugar cane, cotton and oilseeds.
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