Posted on 04/26/2010 1:49:04 PM PDT by Nachum
Israel is getting ready to share technology and skills with African countries struggling to sustain agricultural output due to increasingly unreliable rains, said Agriculture Minister Shalom Simhon.
Simhon said sharing know-how, especially in irrigation and water management, was his focus on a tour of Senegal, Ivory Coast and Gabon.
His trip comes as some 10 million people in West and Central Africa face food shortages due to failed rains.
"We are not arriving here in Africa to take resources from the African countries. We are coming here in order to give know-how and abilities to these countries to develop," Simhon told Reuters in Senegal over the weekend.
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Heh, and the Muzzies will reject the help.
An interesting example of Darwinism in action.
Americans have tried to do the same for nearly a hundred years, no one wants to know how to raise more food than can be eaten. So much food that countries could burn the excess as fuel for their cars.
No one else wants to be successful.
See tagline.
All it would take would be for their culture to respect private property and let the farmers keep the profits of their hard work, and they’d have “too much” food.
But somehow that just doesn’t occur to most people in the world.
In other news Islamic Militias continue to share murder, rape, kidnapping and robbery with the Christian communities of those same African countries, and President Obama has heard a new Jewish joke.
Good luck with that. Its been tried.
It seems to me that the cause of the majority of starvation in the world is NOT a lack of food, but political. Mugabe's rule had pretty much ended food production in Zimbabwe, and where we've seen a lot of starvation, like in the Ethiopian civil war, food is used as a weapon.
Still, I hope this works... Saving lives is a very worthwhile endeavor. I just hope that these African countries will accept the assistance and put it to good use.
Mark
AFAIK they don’t have many indigenous Mohammedans, most of them being imports.
Good Luck, they will steal your teeth while you try to teach them anything.
bttt
Zimbabwe (formerly Rhodesia) was once known as “the breadbasket of Africa.”
Sam Kinison had some comments about Africa and food:
“You want to help world hunger? Stop sending them food. Don’t send them another bite, send them U-Hauls. Send them a guy that says, “You know, we’ve been coming here giving you food for about 35 years now and we were driving through the desert, and we realized there wouldn’t BE world hunger if you people would live where the FOOD IS! YOU LIVE IN A DESERT!! UNDERSTAND THAT? YOU LIVE IN A F***ING DESERT!! NOTHING GROWS HERE! NOTHING’S GONNA GROW HERE! Come here, you see this? This is sand. You know what it’s gonna be 100 years from now? IT’S GONNA BE SAND!! YOU LIVE IN A F***ING DESERT! We have deserts in America, we just don’t live in them, a$$holes!”
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I recall some threads I posted a few years ago about Israel's attempt to export technology developed to make healthy, safe infant formula from camel milk. Where there's camels, and malnourished babies, there's a need. There's also Islam, so it wasn't welcome. Fortunately you can make ice cream for the domestic market. I hope this doesn't end the same way.
There was a concerted effort on the part of the Arab/Muslim world to get Black Africa to back them.
At that time, Israel was sending agronomists to Central Africa.
But in solidartity with the Arab word, they were kicked out. My friend said later that it was the worst thing they had done, taking the side of the Arabs.
All they got for it was highly inflated oil prices, which set back developement for a generation.
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