What's For Dinner?

Tonight's Guest: Hans Muzoora Hans Muzoora works in public private agricultural development partnerships in Africa, most recently in Zambia, as a Ugandan sustainable agriculture and rural development consultant. Because farmers need broad based agricultural extension assistance to be able to have sustainable livelihoods (escape poverty), Hans doesn't question whether countries must partner with NGOs and corporations. World Bank-forced structural readjustment programs destroyed their national agricultural extension capacity. But partnerships' results hinge on structures that assure equity for the people they are supposed to benefit. Seeds' suitability and quality are crucial, but much also depends on ways goals are framed, outcomes are assessed, and standards are defined to favor producers as well as consumers. Hans recounts the details equally important for food sovereignty.