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 April 2011                 

Dr. Paul Rigterink

Potomac Technical Advisors

9208 Orchard Brook Dr

Potomac, MD 20854

• "Discovering High Value Food Commodities for BOP Farmers Living in Tropical and Arid Lands", Link to Food Commodities Paper , Link to Butterfly Project Supplies
  
• "The Legacy of Johnny Appleseed Needs to Come to Africa", November 2010, Link to Johnny Appleseed Paper. 
  
• "The Mas Dinero Project for Improving the Lives of Poor People in Cordoba, Colombia", presented to University, Government, and Church leaders in the Department of Cordoba, Colombia, March 2009, Link to Mas Dinero Business Vision, Link to Trip Report, Link to Business Vision in Spanish, Link to Tropical Fruit Info, Link to Seeds Distributed.

• “Reengineering Bangladesh’s Fruit and Nut Industry to Create a Huge Competitive Advantage for Low- and Middle- Income People of Bangladesh on the World Market”, submitted to Harvard University Center for International Development as entry for 2007 Quadir Prize, Link to Bangladesh paper. 

• “Micro-Enterprises and Food Security”, Food and Water Security: An Integrated Strategy for Food Security in the Developing Countries, edited by Prof. U. Aswathanarayana, Taylor & Francis Group, London, UK/Balkema, Leiden, The Netherlands, 2008, pp. 199-208. 
• “A Revolutionary Approach to Reducing Poverty and Increasing the Agricultural Productivity of Subsistence Farmers”, Conference on Product and Market Development for Subsistence Marketplaces: Consumption and Entrepreneurship Beyond Literacy and Resource Barriers, Chicago, Ill, August 2-4, 2006,  Link to Poverty paper. 
• “A Plan for Improving Food Security in Afghanistan”, submitted to the Afghan Project, Freemont, California in 2003,  Link to Afghanistan paper.  
• “Improvement of Food Security in the Newly Independent States” with D. F. Colaizzi, D. Morris‑Jones, Y. D. Shmilovich, and R. J. Rigterink, submitted to US Government and non-Government Organizations and Moscow State University, 2001, Link to Russia paper.    
• “Accepting the Challenge: How USDA and Moscow State University CanWork Together to Demonstrate that US Companies in Russia are Practicing Responsible Forestry” submitted to USDA and Moscow State University, 2001, Link to Forest paper.  
• “Doubling the Income of Africa’s Poorest Farmers” with M. D. Rogers, submitted to US Government and non-Government Organizations, 2000, Link to Poultry paper. 
• “A ’Win-Win’ Proposal for USAID and Egyptian Bedouin Women in Development”, submitted to USAID and Arab Republic of Egypt, 24 June 1999, Link to Egypt2 paper. 
• “Earning Money in Eritrea Growing Desert Melons”, submitted to Eritrea University personnel, 1997, Link to Melons paper.
• “Accepting the Challenge - How the State Department and NASA GSFC Can Help People Earn a Living and Obtain Water in Morocco’s Arid Lands” with Zakaria M. Oweiss and Ibrahim M. Oweiss, MARISY 95, Rabat, Morocco, October 18, 1995, Link to Morocco paper.
• “Can India Develop an $8 Billion per Year Tropical Fruit and Nut Tree Industry?  Here's  How it is Being Done”, submitted to Indian Department of Agriculture, 1993, Link to Billion paper. 
• "Can Energy Companies and Third World Farmers Make Money Together While Compensating for Excess Carbon Dioxide Emissions?", International Conference on the "New World Order": A Challenge to International Leadership, Association for the Advancement of Policy, Research and Development in the Third World, November 1992, p. 1, Link to CO2 paper.  
• "Two Experiments in Land Use for Third World Farmers", submitted to U.S. Department of Agriculture, July 1990.  
• "Tropical Fruit Trees and Rural Land Use Patterns", Land Use Policy , Butterworth Scientific, Ltd., Surrey, England, July 1989, pp. 194-196.  
• "Needs of a Subsistence Farmer in the Sahel", submitted to Live Aid, December 1985. 
• "Detecting Desert Locust Breeding Grounds in the Sahel with Satellite Data", 18th Annual Electronics and Aerospace Systems Conference "EASCON 85", Washington, D.C., October 28-30, 1985, pp. 141-143.