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CONTACT:
Lee Snyder
Xtreme Farming, Inc.
952 484 0609
lsnyder@xtremefarming.org
www.xtremefarming.org

Xtreme Farming Announces the Hunger Wars Challenge.

Minneapolis, Minnesota, February 26, 2007 - Xtreme Farming announces a Pilot War study for an innovative War on Hunger to be held in the Village of Ngamu in Tanzania, Africa beginning September 2007. 

Xtreme Farming is dedicated to helping farmers in Africa grow more food. The organization offers a distinctly unique approach to solving world hunger:

• Xtreme Farming offers tangible, real-time proof that donations are working, not how much money is being spent.
• It respects and honors Africans and their culture.
• It leverages Reality TV and YouTube broadcasts to demonstrate help in action.
• It provides poor farmers with simple ideas they and their neighbors can implement immediately with no strings attached.
• It makes growing more food a “cool” thing to do for African farmers, providing the necessary motivation to do just that.  

The key to its success is a competition, modeled after engineering school competitions that challenge students to build a faster solar car or smarter robot. Xtreme Farming challenges volunteers to develop, test, and evaluate ideas that can lead to greater productivity for the farmers they are teamed with.   

Each team consists of volunteers who work and live with farmers in Africa for a single growing season.  Sixteen local farmers collectively work 40 Acres of land, representing the global average.  The volunteers are linked by the Internet to their colleagues and to additional resources in America.  Teams work together to develop and implement ideas that will help farmers grow more food more profitably.  The team that earns the most in one growing season wins the competition. 

“The catch,” according to Snyder, “is that farmers can use only the resources and financing that are available to any farmer throughout the region.  This is the only way to ensure that ideas are valid and valuable for all of our world’s farmers.”

The end result of all of this, says Snyder “is ideas that work, and that any neighboring farmer can put into practice immediately with no strings attached.”

Everybody wins: Participating farmers improve their productivity.  Their neighbors can immediately borrow and implement the best ideas.  One farmer at a time, developing nations will increase agricultural output and improve their economy with no capital investment or political involvement.  Students earn academic credits and gain an experience of a lifetime.  Agricultural schools receive recognition that can enhance fundraising and enrollment.  Sponsors gain visibility and goodwill.  And as more ideas and best practices are implemented each season the impact on world hunger will become dramatic.

For additional information on Xtreme Farming and the Hunger Wars Challenge, contact Lee Snyder, Xtreme Farming, Inc., 5643 Green Circle Drive #315, Minnetonka, MN 55343, or call 952.484.0609, or visit www.xtremefarming.org.
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