Posted on 05/22/2016 8:50:55 AM PDT by Lorianne
Harvest should be the time for celebrations, weddings and full bellies in southern Malawi. But Christopher Witimani, Lilian Matafle and their seven children and four grandchildren had nothing to celebrate last week as they picked their meagre maize crop.
Last year’s drought, followed by erratic rains, hit the village of Nkhotakota hard. But this year the rains never came and, for a second year running, the family grain store is empty. If they manage their savings carefully and eat just one small meal a day, they may just have enough food for two more months.
By August, said Irish charity Concern Worldwide, they and tens of thousands of other small farmers in southern Malawi will have completely run out of food, with no prospect of another harvest for at least seven months. With nothing to sell and no chance of earning money, Witimani, Matafle and family will starve.
“I am worried the children will starve to death. I don’t know what to do,” said Matafle.
“We need food. We are in a desperate situation,” her husband added.
Countries are just waking up to the most serious global food crisis of the last 25 years. Caused by the strongest El Niño weather event since 1982, droughts and heatwaves have ravaged much of India, Latin America and parts of south-east Asia. the last of the large-scale famines affecting many millions, donor countries have been slow to pledge funds or support. More than $650m and 7.9m tonnes of food are needed immediately, says the UN. By Christmas, the situation will have become severe.
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>“I am worried the children will starve to death. I don’t know what to do,” said Matafle.
I suspect they will do what they always do, just keep pinching off more mouths to feed regardless of ability to feed them.
Yes. The Social Justice Warriors have it right. If we send them western food and other materials, this is cultural imperialism on our part. Were the Africans to accept it, this would be cultural appropriation on their part.
So, following progressive theory, the best thing we can do for these people is: exactly nothing. Leave them alone to work this out their own way in their own culture.
And, coincidentally, sending food and aid would be violating the Prime Directive. Off:Sarc, I think
But the liberals here don’t want to have these backward countries use modern things like: herbicides,fertilizer and insecticides. They want the backward countries to keep growing “organically” because they say it is earth friendly.
I’ve often wondered given we’ve sent people there for decades, and in addition so many churches have projects ongoing. Does any place ever improve?!?
Don’t worry! Rhodesia can feed all Africa! Rhodesia has the crops! Rhodesia has the technology! Rhodesia has.... Oh wait! Zimbabwe can’t even feed itself!
They should ask Rhodesia for some of their harvest, they produce enough to feed all of Africa, and still have some left over.
That's what many are doing. Unfortunately, they are moving to Europe and over here.
Not to worry. The muzzie will send em 3 or 4 trillion..h*ll with Americans suffering.
They had the expectation that foreign aid would cover any shortfall.
Oops!
For good or bad, colonialism worked because it imposed culture through force, not some idealistic exchange of ideas. The leftists only changed the purported ideals, though blind power is always their true goal.
From what I see, we are headed in that direction, rather than the reverse. It will only improve with the Second Coming.
1) The white farmers in Rhodesia and S.A. weren't "foreigners". They'd been there for a looong time, not even displacing any prior populations. Just doing stuff better.
2) "Sub South Africa" is a whole lot of cold water. Yeah, I know, you meant Sub-Sahara Africa...
If any place actually became self sufficient, then there would be no need for aid.
Which means no justification for fund-raising.
Which means less cash-flow to skim from. What? You actually thought the objective was to HELP people there?
We called them bushwhackers in the cessholes I was at.
At least there are no evil white people
He was right.
Call Bono.
It goes beyond tribalism and culture. There’s a bell curve issue here, too, that no one wants to talk about.
There’s always a bell curve, but the norm is set by the group. Plus, scores are not causative—they’re barely correlative. Many people far outperform simple scores and many “geniuses” underperform. A 105 IQ makes one a genius when the mean is 75.
Choosing mental and physical differences as the single cause.is as illogical as denying their existence.
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