Aussie brings dry farming expertise to Botswana

PANDAMATENGA, Botswana (Reuters) -- The sun-scorched scrub stretching as far as the eye can see could easily be in the Australian outback -- only there are no kangaroos. In fact it is Botswana in southern Africa, but Peter Schuurs is using dry-land farming methods from his native Australia to transform the local economy and carve out a future for peasant farmers who might otherwise simply sell up and move to town.