The African continent faces challenges as varied as its vast landmass, some three times the size of the United States.

But one shared challenge by all 54 countries is food security.

How to Feed a Population of 1.2 billion people

that's expected to double by 2050. Fred to Sam Lazaro has a report on

one attempt to build a foundation. It's part of his series, Agents for Change.

This picturesque 3,000-acre campus represents a $100 million effort to bring a piece of Nebraska to Rwanda,

a land whose history and geography could not be more distant from the American Midwest. On one small plot a harvest of corn or

maize is being brought in by students whose day is split between farm chores and a rigorous curriculum of chemistry, biology, and mathematics.

The Rwanda Institute for Conservation Agriculture, or Rika, was inaugurated in 2019, aiming to transform a profession that employs the vast

majority of Africa's population.

For most, farming is an eternal struggle to earn a living or respect and you'll never find a

young person on a poster or a flyer about agriculture says student Joel Ishumway.

You only find all the women who are from the rural areas.

You can find some cool guys on those posters.

You can find cool guys on those posters.

Rika students like this group are arguably cool.

Academic high achievers among 84 chosen each year from more than 3,000 applicants. Many come from urban and middle-class families that

climb the socioeconomic ladder, leaving behind the agriculture traditions of their grandparents.

When you come from a family of engineers, lawyers,

to tell them that you're draining agriculture,

they think you're crazy.

Most of them are like, you were supposed to study medicine.

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