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To: Tommaso who wrote (89828)12/23/2007 11:10:49 AM
From: Haim R. Branisteanu  Read Replies (1) of 110194
 
Tommasso- there are great advancements in agriculture in Africa and in many places they grow twice as much per hectare as in the US. Sweet Sorghum is one example.

Further Africa is very rich in water resources that go unused from Senegal to Zambia in the south, just look closely to Africa's map. The main problem is lack of cultural tradition of cultivation and reliance on "gathering" including destroying forests for fire wood.

Ad to this the new developments on "vertical farming" and the use of treated sewage water for protein crops for farm animals like "Duckweed" etc. and you will realize that we are very far from starvation if proper education steps will be taken and seriously from both sides- or better said ALL sides.

Unfortunate politics and personal and corporate greed take center stage. Nothing can be done in Africa without paying heavy bribes and the economic and political maturity there is almost not existent as it is in many SE Asia countries.

IMHO negativity (mainly laziness, ill will and greed) in the basic human nature destroys it all – how to solve this in the 21st century I do not know
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