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Agriculture in South Africa is based around the plantation model that was implemented by Europeans over the last 150 years. Africans were moved off the best land and then huge plantations were set up for Europeans to grow crops by exporting them back to Europe and elsewhere. Africans were left with the worst land on small plots of land that were rough and dry and they did not own it. That is on purpose and was not some act of nature or evolution. The point is that the economic system itself is the blame for this and the only way to fix it is to rectify the last 200 years of systematic economic exploitation of Africa.

So why the obsession with small scale farms? Why do Africans have to be limited to small scale farms? What do you mean that only foreigners should have large farms in Africa and Africans should make due with small farms? These hypocrites are simply talking in code to appease the world community by maintaining the status quo. In other words big farms for the foreigners, with some "token" farms split up but maintain the global agro-industrial infrastructure in place for foreigners and Europeans to make profits and give a little tiny bit more land to the Africans as a gesture of "progress" which is meaningless as small farms with no infrastructure and organized distribution systems(like the large multinationals have in Africa) are doomed to fail. And that is what they want because they don't really care about feeding Africans. They just want some PR to make themselves look good.

As a matter of fact they probably want these "small farms" to basically be sharecroppers getting seed and support from some NGO or other foreign owned enterprise which tells them what to grow and when to grow it and gives them chump change in return. So in reality they want them to be slaves and not free to plant what they want, as much as they want, where they want and when they want as free people do.

Progress is to take all the land back and it shouldn't be bought because that contradicts the fact that it was stolen to begin with. And that is why European industrialists whose wealth is based on stealing shouldn't be going to Africa speaking insults against Africans as if they really want their European brethren to give up all the land they stole and profits they have made. Of course they don't and they should stop saying such things because it isn't true. Otherwise they wouldn't have spent the last 200 years conquering Africa if they really were so concerned about Africa's well being.

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