Posted on 10/27/2020 6:29:44 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The economic situation in Africa has improved a lot since the 1990s. Yet rampant poverty and food insecurity still impact millions of lives there.
Currently, there is a huge demand-supply gap in the agricultural sector. At least three hundred million are malnourished.
The United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization defines food security as "a situation that exists when all people, at all times, have physical, social and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food that meets their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life."
Africa's agricultural sector needs to be strengthened to meet the demand for quality food. In 2017, Africa spent US$64.5 billion importing food, but importing food is not sustainable in the long run.
World Food Prize laureate Dr. Akinwumi Adesina says, "It is unacceptable for Africa to import food. Why? Because the continent holds 65 percent of the world's uncultivated arable land. Properly used, even a small part of that land could provide sufficient food for all Africans and even for export."
While other countries have moved way ahead in food production, Africa has lagged behind. Agricultural productivity in Africa has remained stagnant for the last 40 years. That must not continue.
Norman Borlaug — father of the Green Revolution — had a special passion to uplift the poor in Africa. Reports recall that "his last words before his death concerned the plight of African farmers, whose lives he had been devoted to improving for almost 30 years."
The global Green Revolution — spurred by Borlaug's gene-edited crop varieties — began in the 1960s and enabled countries to produce record outputs. The cost of cereal grains declined by 30 percent during the 1980s.
The heart of this revolution was carefully cross-bred crop varieties. They were more robust to varied and changing climatic conditions,
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That alone will not solve their backwards state.
All of Africa is rooted in tribalism.
What ever country you go to, that is what rules the land, feeds into the city and gives the warped outcomes of their “democracies” wherever they are.
That is why there leaders are “chiefs” and the aid packages are treated like their own assets.
They are not raiding nor looting... they are not kleptocrats,
just taking what is rightfully theirs as a “chief”
The U.N. won't allow it because they HATE TO PROMOTE AFRICAN POPULATION GROWTH!!!!
gmo is racist ........................ /s
... and genetic crops will not heal the issues of the turd world’s islam.
Oh hell no.
Regenerative farming works in any country & is the way to providing nutritious food for people .... it also has a positive impact on “climate change”.
Check out the movie “Kiss the Ground” (Netflix) to see how regenerative farming works. Ignore who the actors are in the film ... the message is sound and makes a lot of sense.
Remember super tomatoes? Whatever happened?
Norman Borlaug: The greatest American no one knows about.
I don’t remember them .... sorry!
but all of this is meaningless if there is no rule of law...
The U.N. and the WHO have been focused on Population control in Africa for 60 years.
Why do you think they lied about DDT? It saved 1 million lives per year from Malaria .
AIDS is largely a result of them teaching anal sex as cheap birth control.
They won't provide food aid unless they promote birth control and abortion.
The entire effort is a Eugenics policy so they don't compete for benefit from their own natural resources.
I think it was Rhodesia that used to be a major food exporter....lets see.....what happened?
could it be...…….socialism?!
"Doctor Weir! Doctor Weir!"
Weir looked up and saw that the Guardian was pulling a man along behind her by the wrist.
"Yes, Genie? What is it?"
"Doctor Weir, this is Doctor Parrish. He is a botanist and an agriculture specialist."
"I know who Doctor Parrish is."
"He told me something absolutely amazing!"
"Did he now?"
"Yes! He just told me how your people on Earth performed an absolute miracle."
"A miracle?"
"Oh yes, how you managed to feed seven billion people on a single world with surplus food left over. That is a feat that far surpasses anything my people have ever done in all of recorded history."
"Is it?"
Doctor Parrish helpfully explained, "She asked me about the types of food crops that we grow on Earth. I told her about the Green Revolution: Norman Borlaug and his creation of high-yield varieties [HYVs] of cereal grains, semi-dwarf rice [IR8], modern soybeans and corn.."
"Doctor Weir, the Green Revolution saved billions. Your food crops on Earth are a true miracle."
"Oh, I guess I can see why you would think of them that way. I admit I never really thought of our crops like that."
"Doctor Weir, I don't understand something. Norman Borlaug and his Green Revolution have saved countless lives on your world, literally billions of them, more than any other human being had saved in all of your world's history combined, and more than the death tolls of all your recorded wars combined. So tell me, why is it that I cannot find any statues of him in your database? No great monuments? No museums? I found many tributes to your war leaders, to Roman emperors, to American presidents, but nothing honoring him. Why is that?"
Weir shrugged, "I really don't know."
Parrish spoke up, "I have to agree with her. Norman Borlaug's work in the 1960s and 1970s in India, Brazil, Mexico, Africa, and elsewhere, his Green Revolution, really did save Earth from mass starvation. Hardly anyone appreciates just how significant his work actually was."
Sheppard walked into the gate room and saw the commotion on the main floor. He decided to join the group. "Hey, what's up?"
"John! Look at this!" The Guardian's imager brought up a picture of a plant with a green husk that was about fifteen centimeters long. The husk was peeled back to reveal rows of hundreds and hundreds of small yellow nodules that were attached in several neat and straight rows along a central shaft of cellulose.
"I see. Corn. Very nice."
"Look how big it is! And it grows incredibly fast. It thrives in a temperate climate with minimal tending and only moderate watering. It's packed with carbohydrates, and it can be dried for long term storage.."
".. and it is great for making popcorn."
"We need to get some!"
"I know. We really need some more for movie nights."
"No, no, no, no. I mean we need the seeds for this amazing crop, as much as we can get, for distribution and planting."
"Oh?"
"Yes! We need to distribute the seeds for these miracle crops to as many worlds as possible. Don't you understand? Over ninety percent of the human population in the Pegasus Galaxy live as hunter/gatherers or subsistence farmers, with hardly any food surplus. Even advanced worlds like New Athos depend upon hunting and fishing to supplant protein needs. Look at this!" Her imager whirled. "Soybeans! They are loaded with protein!"
Weir tried to calm down the excitable girl. "Okay, okay. Great, wonderful. Thank you for the Ag lesson. Say, why don't you draw up a list? McKay has an idea for sending a message back to Earth. We can include your Ag list on it."
"Oh, I will, I will! Parrish, come with me!" She dragged away the botanist while Weir and Sheppard looked on with bemused expressions on their faces.
Sheppard turned to Weir and said wryly, "Don't tell her about bacon. Her head will probably explode."
RE: I think it was Rhodesia that used to be a major food exporter....
That was before Rhodesia became Zimbabwe.
South Africa could be on its way as well... I hope not, but things aren’t looking good there.
ALL crops are genetically modified...
In the old days you would splice different plants together to get what you wanted....
“Can’t move water without electricity!”
An old fashioned style windmill was on every farm prior to electricity in our neck of the woods. When the wind blew the windmill pumped water to a storage tank, which was mostly a cistern under the home. A hand pump was in the kitchen to draw the water. The windmills also fed stock tanks.
My point is, this archaic system is well suited for a backwards culture. It’s simple, very reliable, and it works. Using this decades old design would mean simple maintenance requirements that would require no high tech training or special tools. There is no need for over engineering in an unengineered world.
Problems with this idea are few would get rich off of it and local governments would have to allow implementation to name a few.
A friend of mine worked for 2 years installing power lines in a $300 million UN project. They would string the lines by day and the locals would steal the lines by night to sell the copper. They finally had to give up.
“Remember super tomatoes? Whatever happened?”
They were eaten by equally super tomato worms.
rwood
and birth control. You don’t need 8 kids in a mud hut w/o food or water.
A population is naturally limited by how much the local environment can support. Normally, a population will grow to the capacity of the environment. Doesn’t matter if we are talking about deer, wildebeests or people. However; there are variations in the local environment and in the size of the population. On occasion, the population will exceed the current capacity. People will die and bring it back into balance.
The problem is when outside forces come in to artificially increase the capacity of environment. The population now grows to consume that supply also. The population is now dependant on that supply and on those who supply it. If for any reason that supply does not continue (political or environmental) the die-off is even greater when the population has to go back to relying on the native environment.
It’s nature.
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