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To: Moominoid who wrote (31777)	4/18/2003 12:35:19 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 74559

<<I call it accidental>> Lets split the issue into two. My statement is about the scare under the western context. KC brought the African numbers. Now we are discussing the scare under African perspective. First many people want to be handed over money to go "help" Africans. In their quest for this money they use anything to achieve their goals. Hence I dispute the numbers. My book I wrote while in Africa (but never published) have a few examples. I have been in contact with many people "helping" Africa and they are not doing the easy simple steps to improve the Africans' lives. They are even making them WORSE while trying to help. The international Institute of Tropical Agriculture, (IITA) develops crops to improve food production. They took a very robust type of bean and developed it in a high production type of bean. Lots of effort to get it right. The robust low yeld bean, gave a few beans over a long periond of time and the Nigerians were used to eat the beans as they were yelded by the native plant. Then the Nigerians started planting the IITA beans. The bean bush yelded a single load of beans -lots of beans- and them the plant died. Since they dind't have storage facilities, the extra load was for nothing. They went back to native beans.