Israeli Aid to Africa

Nahum Finkelstein reports: Sub-Saharan Africa blooms with Israel's cooperation.

One wouldn't necessarily imagine a Jewish Israeli professor and a Moslem African vegetable farmer striking up a friendship. But Prof. Dov Pasternak, from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev has formed a unique partnership and a special personal relationship with Issaka Dandakoye from Niamey, Niger.

For the past five years, Pasternak has been busy in Niger - in the sub-Saharan area of Africa called the Sahel - developing a horticultural production system called the African Market Garden (AMG) for farmers with small parcels of land.

Known throughout the land affectionately as 'Professor Dov', the former head of the university's Institute for Agriculture and Biology developed the system based mainly on vegetables with a few fruit trees placed in the field. It is irrigated with a gravity (low-pressure) drip irrigation system, with field size is limited to about 500 square meters.

For more information on Israel helping to combat desertification in Africa visit MASHAV - the Israeli Center for International Cooperation.

Comments

[Edward]

The anti-Semites and idiotarians will claim that this is a cheap and transparent public relations stunt.

Israel made the desert bloom when the murderous so-called "Palestinians" could not. Making Africa bloom should be easy in comparison. I wish them luck.

[fadl]

Good luck indeed,but, comments such as "murderous so-called Palestinians" will only add oil to the burning fire we're all suffering. I very much prefer "let's work together" as the world is changing. I'm Sudanese and I see no harm in working with every man on Earth.
Israel and the whole region is entering a new era. The next step the Israelies should take is work with the Palestinians rather than kill them.