Rory Turner said:

Its absolutely a brilliant idea. There is so much room for wealth creation and sharing via agriculture in Africa.

Kicking the tires:

Irrigation?

Transportation?

Storage?

Security?

Rory, I've been trying to get Norbert to slow down long enough to chime in here. He grew up on the farm and has some useful experience with all of these issues. Security is a doozy - it's impossible to tell right now what the rebels are planning after recent collapse of the peace talks in Juba.

USAID is apparently in the throes of changing how they fund projects and everything is on hold, though it seems a project like this is not off their radar to consider in some form.

Meanwhile, I am kind of excited to think about what would happen if we posted this project at the new MyC4 platform that's being discussed over here: http://www.omidyar.net/group/foo dchain/news/207/

Amon, you'd be most welcome as a volunteer. Please join us in a discussion about designing a LiA volunteer program over here: http://www.omidyar.net/group/chi ldren/news/1/