Session Three - Food and Agriculture

Discussion

Ms Lotte Reimer, Zimbabwe Institution of Engineers ;

I was interested to see your project in East Africa. My question is: how was it funded and who asked for the project to happen? Was that a sort of research project or was it something that was asked for by the tea planters or people over there?

Professor Richard Godwin:

The project to which you refer, with the tea harvester, was privately financed by a consortium of the plantation owners, who also had a small engineering side line, and so they were working together. We were acting as consultants.

Mr Mwongera, Ministry of Land Reclamation and Water Development, Kenya :