is of particular importance, and
while budgets have been tight
and this budget does make
trade-offs, we have now launched
a u.s. global development lab
that brings businesses,
scientists, technologies, and
businesses -- universities
together.
i believe in the latin american
region in particular we are
beginning to see interesting
results.
we closed an interesting
leverage partnership in which we
will spend $5.7 million to
motivate local banks to commit
$133 million to small-scale
farmers and producers in
agricultural land in colombia,
peru, and guatemala.
that kind of leverage and that
kind of taylor's what is
possible -- scale is what is
possible if we do things in a