Technological backwardness generally characterizes Africa’s road to development. This continent does not fully use available and free technologies that have helped the developed and the newly industrial countries achieve their present level of development. According to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), enough technologies are available which, if used, can raise the continent’s agriculture to the high producing status that is found today in the North and many countries of the South.
Africa invests little and very insufficiently in research and development. It fails to retain and used for development its highly trained and educated men and women. It is essentially a producer of raw material for industrialized countries.
CHFI is helping to reverse the above situation by helping to develop, harness and safely apply appropriate conventional and new technologies for the successful achievements of its objectives. It is involved in capacity building, awareness creation and technology transfer. It helps to seek and secure the contribution of of the Diaspora to technology-based development of Africa and helps the continent retain its highly trained and capable engineers and scientists.
Technological backwardness is a major roadblock to Africa’s development. The continent does not fully use the advances in agriculture that have helped the developed and the newly industrial countries achieve their present level of development. According to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), enough technologies are available which, if used, can raise the continent’s food production to the high levels of production seen in other parts of the world.
Furthermore, Africa does not invest sufficiently in research. African nations fail to retain and use their educated men and women for development of the continent, which remains essentially a producer of raw material for industrialized countries.
CHFI works to reverse this situation by helping to develop, harness, and apply conventional and new technologies for the successful achievements of its objectives. Furthermore, it seeks the contribution of the Diaspora to technology-based development of Africa and helps the continent to retain its highly trained and capable engineers and scientists.
