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Ever Hear About the Jesuit who Revolutionized Rice Production in Madagascar?
May 17, 2012
Father Henri de Laulanié was a Jesuit who spent more than three decades of his life working with small-scale farmers in Madagascar to improve their crop productivity. He first arrived in Madagascar from his native France in 1961 as an agricultural missionary with no experience in rice cultivation. Recognizing the Malagasy dependency on rice—they eat [...]