Feeding the Future: 25 Years of the Sasakawa Africa Association

Nippon Foundation Chairman Sasakawa Yōhei with Malian President Amadou Toumani Touré and other VIPs at an event to celebrate 25 years of the Sasakawa Africa Association.

Visiting a sorghum farm. Local farmers can see with their own eyes how effective the new techniques are compared to traditional methods.

A woman demonstrates a corn husking machine introduced by SAA.

A View of Sélingué, Mali

At the symposium to mark 25 years of SAA. From left to right: Nicéphore Dieudonné Soglo, former president of Benin; Sasakawa Yōhei; Cissé Mariam Kaïdama Sidibé, prime minister of Mali; and Olusegun Obasanjo, former president of Nigeria.

Villagers demonstrate a peanut husking machine. These machines have brought considerable savings in time and labor.