Africa's population – in contrast to other regions – is growing significantly younger. How to employ, educate and feed that youth bulge is the topic of a report presented in Dakar, Senegal this weekend at the Mo Ibrahim Foundation annual forum. South African Minister of Planning Trevor Manuel told the gathering that the three challenges need integrated solutions. Children can't ...
What I don't understand is how people can continue to preach development in
Africa without discussing mechanisation, every major food exporting country
in the world has a highly mechanisation farming sector. Every food
importing country in Africa has a poorly developed farming sector where 80%
of the food grown is by human power 15 % by draft animals and only 5% by
mechanisation, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to work out that there
must be a correlation modern farming methods and freedom from drudgery and
subsistance. By treating Africa as a special case actively denying access
to mechanisation prefering slow incremental change outsiders in the main
are condeming millions of Africans to a life of servitude and poverty for
generations to come.
Africa: Small Farmers Merit Support - Gates Foundation
allAfrica.com, 12 November 2012
Africa's population – in contrast to other regions – is growing significantly younger. How to employ, educate and feed that youth bulge is the topic of a report presented in Dakar, Senegal this weekend at the Mo Ibrahim Foundation annual forum. South African Minister of Planning Trevor Manuel told the gathering that the three challenges need integrated solutions. Children can't ...
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What I don't understand is how people can continue to preach development in Africa without discussing mechanisation, every major food exporting country in the world has a highly mechanisation farming sector. Every food importing country in Africa has a poorly developed farming sector where 80% of the food grown is by human power 15 % by draft animals and only 5% by mechanisation, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to work out that there must be a correlation modern farming methods and freedom from drudgery and subsistance. By treating Africa as a special case actively denying access to mechanisation prefering slow incremental change outsiders in the main are condeming millions of Africans to a life of servitude and poverty for generations to come.