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Source: http://www.jpost.com/Business-and-Innovation/Tech/Tell-us-how-you-made-Israel-470231
Israel Shares Know-How with Developing World
(Jerusalem Post) Sharon Udasin - Surrounded by barren desert and malaria-ridden swampland, the fledgling State of Israel had little food to sustain its inhabitants. Fast forward six-and-a-half decades, and the Little Country that Could is not only nourishing its own eight million citizens, but is also helping countries around the world do the same. "We are the only country in the world that has come to such a high development stage in such a short period of time," said Yakov Poleg, head of the Agriculture Ministry's Center for International Agricultural Development Cooperation (CINADCO). "The beauty is that Israel is willing to share all its development achievements with other nations." Then-Foreign Minister Golda Meir created Israel's Agency for International Development Cooperation (MASHAV) in 1957 after a trip to Africa. Since then, MASHAV has trained 270,000 participants from 132 countries, of which 70% involved agriculture.