They won’t adopt even the most innocuous technology. My daughter spent seven months at an orphanage and they cooked in a hut: a two by four foot adobe hut with a roof without a chimney. The women who cook die from the smoke inhalation, but they refuse to change. I suggested a rocket stove to produce a clean fire and reduce wood consumption, but the idea was ridiculed, even though the stoves were produced relatively locally.
The culture is the problem. Tribalism and stupidity are a cruel mix; however, it is the perfect mix for leftist dictators. People would rather spend time waiting on their government rice than building any sort of infrastructure. Production sources are not viewed as means of support; they are viewed as targets.
So much for getting rid if all those white foreign farmers in South Africa. Eh? Sub South Africa is fully capable of feeding their people. It’s the people themselves that have caused their own disaster.
It’s the same here only we call it “ghetto mentality”.
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?!?
It goes beyond tribalism and culture. There’s a bell curve issue here, too, that no one wants to talk about.