Africa: Farming changes could lead Africa out of poverty

Agricultural advances will help bring African countries out of their impoverished state more than huge financial aid packages, according to an expert working on new farming techniques there. "If you want to help Africa you have to support them do what they know best, and agriculture is what Africans know best simply because close to 80% of the people live in rural areas, and agriculture is the main occupation in the rural areas," said Dr. Dov Pasternak, director of the International Programme on Arid Land Crops.