China offers LAC development dividend

Owolabi Elabanjo, chief extension officer at the Ministry of Agriculture of Antigua and Barbuda, still recalls the impact of a month-long training program last year that introduced cutting-edge Chinese agricultural practices to his island nation.

Organized in partnership with China's Yuan Longping High-Tech Agriculture Co, the hands-on training focused on pepper breeding, corn cultivation and seed production.

"It not only offered new seed varieties from China, but also technical expertise of a kind that opened my mind and reshaped my understanding of food production, food security and nutrition," Elabanjo said.