“Doing this as part of our agricultural program is critically important today,” says Legovini.

Subsequent grants helped to improve water and sanitation, erect fencing for individual land plots, and develop an agricultural program to raise subsistence crops and poultry.

Joining a short term research program in China has not only allowed Pakistani agricultural scientist Sayyar Khan to push forward with his academic studies, but also given him a chance to see a country he had heard so much about.