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Unique technology for third-world farmers

Photon Courier has an excellent summary of this Forbes article, “Trickle-Up Economics”. The article features International Development Enterprises, which is doing some really great things regarding getting life-improving technology to poor third-world farmers.

Photon Courier also makes a very good point I’d like to highlight:

Obviously, technologies such as those being pursued by Paul Polak and Amy Smith don’t represent the entire solution to world poverty. But they do have an important part to play, and indeed are likely to make more of a real difference than many of the “glamor” projects long favored by the international development establishment.

I hope Paul Wolfowitz will find time in his schedule to meet with Polak and Smith, in the near future. A few million dollars directed toward their work is likely to have more impact than a few billion elsewhere.

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