Date:         Sun, 16 Apr 2000 09:54:12 +0200
Subject:      Obafemi Awolowo University Farm, Nigeria
From:   Lylian Rodriguez [lylianr@email.com]

Dear Jacky,
thanks for your comments, but the main point of my intervention is the
importance "to build up a local team of people", to involve teachers and
students, to let them get benefit "learn" from the work they do at the
University and to let the University benefit from their work. That is the
way to start from now and if later there is an opportunity of having
somebody to come and help so it is OK, and may be the results are going to
be better,  but not to wait until the EXPATRIATE comes to start the work.
What I mean is that there are great projects but if the people behind them
are not committed or willing to do it, then the failures come.  We are rich
in resources, I see it, there are difficulties and everywhere the situation
is different but everything needs a motor and that motor is "committed
people".

Best regards,
Lylian