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Peace Corps? What it is like working in agriculture in French-speaking Africa?

I am in the peace corps application process, and the lady who is working with me nominated me to be in agriculture, so I might be a farmer in French speaking Africa! (French speaking africa was the region that I chose)..
So, has anyone done it? Does anyone have a guess of which country I will be sent to? If anyone has done agriculture in French speaking Africa or Agriculture anywhere in the peacecorps, I would like to hear some of your story! My only concern is.. I wouln't be working as much with people as I would in a teaching/health/community development job.

oh, and I have no experience in agriculture. I have a double BA in French and Political Science.

Regarding where you are going to be posted, go to the country profiles of the active PC countries in Africa and determine which ones have both French as a language and a PC agriculture program.

You will be working with people just as much as a PC teacher or health volunteer would be. Don't think of yourself as a "farmer," but rather an educator of farmers.

Don't worry about not having experience in agriculture, during your first 3 months as a 鈥淧C Trainee鈥?you will be trained in agriculture and prepped for the project you will be working on in the country.

Before you go read "Gaviotas: A Village to Reinvent the World" by Alan Weisman. This book was a favorite amongst Agro PCV's in the country I served (Cameroon).

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