About five times each year, James Simon, PhD, a professor of plant biology at Rutgers University, travels from New Jersey to Africa to implement projects that improve the lives of rural villagers through fruit, vegetable, and medicinal plant production. Since 1999, he has made more than 40 trips to Africa and taken about 30 additional flights to and from locations within the continent. His work training educators and scientists, non-governmental organizations, community growers, and associations of women farmers has helped to create hundreds of jobs and enabled communities to make higher profits on the plants they cultivate and process.
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