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Little did Nancy Jones suspect what lay ahead for her when she thought that pasteurising milk in Mauritania would be a good idea. Her dream dairy just had to overcome a few minor hurdles: there were no cows in the desert, only restless camels; Mauritanians loved raw milk but regarded local industry with mistrust; there was no trained manpower; the technical environment was almost nonexistent; importers ruled the market - and she was a woman.Nancy Abeiderrahmane, as she became, wandered into a twenty-year-long adventure that would earn her a Rolex Award and a few medals, and more importantly offer her a unique experience of the pitfalls and transformations that lie on the rocky road to Development.

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Nancy M. Jones, MBE, was born in the UK and grew up in Spain, where she studied engineering. In France she fell in love with a Mauritanian, got married and went to live in his brand new desert country. Eighteen years and four children later she rather unwittingly set up a dairy to pasteurise camel milk, an adventure that kept her very busy for the following twenty years.

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