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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They must have forgotten to energize them before they left in the evening.
The best investment in Africa is population control. The world can't support African families with 10-12 children each.
Why? The crazies are killing the FARMERS
Like the pope they (usually European organizations) push green lifestyles, not development.
In the meanwhile politicians steal literally billions of dollrs from companies looting oil or mineral resources,
The Green NGOs oppose modern agriculture, GNO crops and even high yield hybrids that are non GMO but require fertilizer and pesticides.
China and countries in the Middle East are helping push midern agricultural techniques.
Alas, China is also exploiting their resources, and undermining local businesses by underpricing local products with cheap stuff.
People are leaving to get jobs. Get rid of corruption and Africa will thrive...Kenya is one example of modern African culture.
The CCP could turn Africa into prime real estate with their fentanyl exports.
No, China is sending meth to poor Asian countries, so I suspect soeme of it is alsi going to Africa
Given that they are poor at farming how will this work? Import white farmers maybe,
The real “Limits to Growth” is technology. It always has and will be. Food, water (desalinization), and energy can all be enhanced by technology as they always have been. Whether fire, agricultural methods, or aqueducts, technology has allowed for greater populations though time.
If you can splice some birth control into those crops, sure.
There is nowhere on earth — Africa included — where extreme levels of “food insecurity” isn’t largely the result of inept or corrupt governance. Some of the greatest famines in the history of the African continent were the result of weaponization of food. Even if you gave them enough free food for everyone in the country to die from morbid obesity, you’d still have widespread malnourishment because so little of that abundance would reached the people who needed it the worst.
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