Midwest Exports to Africa

Once again, private enterprise does more to save the world than many liberal do-gooders and governments. John Deere and Pioneer Hi-Bred export their expertise to Africa. WSJ:

Africa's nascent push to finally feed itself is turning the clock back to the early part of 20th-century America. It was in the 1930s and '40s when Iowa-based Pioneer Hi-Bred International popularized hybrid seeds in the U.S., swelling corn yields throughout the Midwest. Seven decades later, African farmers and U.S. companies are trying to recreate the same boom that turned America into the world's breadbasket, only this time in the harsh climate -- environmental and political -- of Ethiopia and greater Africa. [snip]

"Africa is the only continent where per capita food production is declining, so the need is there," says J.B. Penn, the chief economist of Deere & Co. and a former undersecretary at the U.S. Agriculture Department. The present food crisis "is solved only through higher production," adds Paul Schickler, president of DuPont Co.'s Pioneer unit. "That is what is needed in Africa, through the use of better technology, genetics and agronomic practices."

The communists were tossed out in the early 90's, about when the Berlin Wall came down I imagine. Freedom and free markets enable prosperity. And by creating jobs overseas we create them here. The African Dream, the American Dream.