In the northern region of the Central African Republic, near Batangafo, an Italian catholic mission is teaching farmers to switch from hand cultivation to oxen-drawn farm implements; animal husbandry and the use of improved cassava seeds. Farmers receive - - For the sake of efficiency and smaller overhead costs, all the various World Food Programme (WFP) projects launched in the Central African Republic were centralized into a single Food-for-Work project with several different targets. The new project is bei