There are a couple of things in your question, and I'll take the last one first.
I think just as in Canada, people are confused by the multitude of signals they get about nutrition, so there is sometimes difficulty in sorting the wheat from the chaff. But if we go right down to those poor villager levels, they don't have the same choices you do when you go to the grocery store here in Canada and have a cornucopia of things to choose from. There's just those grains and that's it, so how do you make good nutrition when you don't have all the ingredients?
I think a holistic and intersectoral effort is needed to look at diversity in agriculture, to look at educating people about how you put good products together, even at the community levels, certainly at the small business level. Those micro-enterprises often serve people in rural areas and poor people in urban areas as well, in developing countries. I think that's the first thing; quite a lot of effort is needed to make the markets work for the poor, because that doesn't work terribly well right now.
The second point is on peanuts, and why we would send peanuts back to Africa. Peanuts are highly nutritious, but they also have a tendency to attract aflatoxins. Those of you who are scientifically minded will know these are poisonous chemicals. What's very important there is that the processing capacity, if you are going to use peanuts, is very well developed with proper quality controls and safety controls, if possible. That does limit what can be made at the very local level. So you have to get up a level to the small to medium enterprise.
I think there's great promise there for using local ingredients to manufacture more things, but again the market has to be there in terms of cash availability for people to buy such products. I think there's a lot of promise, and we started to make a lot of significant progress, I would say, along that ladder, but it's still quite a ladder to climb.
