World Challenge 2010 - In a Nutshell - Full Belly Project Malawi

VOTE FOR YOUR FAVOURITE WORLD CHALLENGE PROJECT FOR 2010 @ WWW.THEWORLDCHALLENGE.CO.UK - BUT HURRY, VOTING ENDS ON THE 12TH OF NOVEMBER! In 2001 engineer Jock Brandis, founder of the Full Belly Project was visiting a friend in Mali in West Africa. On a visit to women's cooperative he noticed that they were still shelling peanuts -- the most important local cash crop -- by hand. A year later he was back with his specially-designed Universal Nut Sheller which helped the women process five times as many peanuts.

Brandis' invention was to be the start of an Africa wide project to promote easy-to-make and easy-to-maintain technologies to improve agricultural output sustainably.

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