Dick Lugar: “we must acknowledge that the voice of Afghans themselves is missing.”

If we are really serious about yields and about a large change for the single woman farmer dealing with bad seed and bad fertilizer and bad transportation, this is why I asked the question.

The President has to want to get back into the discussions. At this point, there is not evidence that that is the case.

In testimony we have had before this committee from the Gates Foundation, they emphasize, in addition to all we have talked about thus far, the whole problem of transportation; transportation both of crops once the farm gets beyond merely…

Several members of Congress have already proposed legislation along these lines.