The Norman Borlaug Institute for International Agriculture

The Norman Borlaug Institute for International Agriculture at Texas A&M was contracted in October 2009 to conduct a two-year agriculture project with the Democratic Republic of the Congo's armed forces at Camp Base outside Kisangani. The agriculture project was a component of a train-and-equip mission, funded by U.S. State Department and conducted by U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM), where the U.S. military trained a light infantry battalion at Camp Base, Kisangani, as part of a long-term, multi-lateral partnership to promote security sector reform in the DRC. The Borlaug project aims to help subsidize the food needed at the camp, as well as to equip the roughly 60 soldiers who are part of the agricultural company.

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