Thank you for that question.
We at the Global Institute for Food Security, as well as partners here at the University of Saskatchewan, in particular Dr. Carol Henry in the pharmacy and nutrition department, were invited to submit a proposal to Global Affairs Canada to build capacity in Africa on and around the topic of not only food production but also around the nutrition component. Again, calories are key when you're hungry, but it's the right calories so that you can continue to avoid stunting and all the other issues that are important for growing a society.
Unfortunately, that effort was put on hold and not moved forward. What was interesting about the proposal, though, was that we at the Global Institute for Food Security were able to create partnership opportunities with the University of California at Davis's orphan African crops and plant breeding school to leverage Canada and our partners in the world to add capacity.
I think one thing that's super-important—it's one of the things we're doing in Bangladesh—is helping to build capacity in terms of the human capital in these geographies so that they're able to accept, adopt and apply the right tool for their region. It's important that we listen and understand and take the time to invest in that understanding and recognize that the Canadian solution works great here in Canada, but that it always has to be tweaked so that it fits the geography we're moving into.
Again, it needs to be done with local partners so that it gets adopted. If you give the best tools—