“Just planting enough to get you to the next harvest is not sustainable. “
There used to be a meme showing empty bread shelves on the left and full shelves on the right. The caption read, “In socialism people wait on bread. In capitalism bread waits on people.” There is so much wrong with the failed African states there can probably never be a market economy. Then we have various states imposing their agenda. Europe pushed one country to allow grain from the US to rot in the ship’s holds because it was GMO. They held out their economic aid. The leaders weren’t starving and the aid makes them rich, so nobody hurt, right? That’s just one example. There are hundreds of how “help” from the west sabotages the local economy. Giving away free milk and baby formulae makes it impossible for entrepreneurs to sell their milk products, as another example.
Free stuff that sounds good in some senator’s office wrecks havoc when put into practice.
“Europe pushed one country to allow grain from the US to rot in the ship’s holds because it was GMO. They held out their economic aid. “
Europe is an astoundingly bad place and is at the root of most of the worlds suffering today. The people I know from Europe simply couldn’t be any nicer. But their government is beyond repair. And the government there is structured in such a manner as to ensure that it is extremely insulated from what the people want.