Wednesday, February 13, 2008

American pumps up Third World farmers' income

If there's a limit to what one person can do about Third World poverty, Paul Polak hasn't found it. For 25 years, he's been the Johnny Appleseed of the treadle pump, a simple foot-powered irrigation device that's enabled millions of farmers making $1 a day in places such as Bangladesh and Zambia to produce bigger crops and earn more.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Paul Polak has just written a book called "Out of Poverty" that describes what he has learned in his ground breaking work. It is a good read.