Africa's Smallholder Farmers Merit Support
The importance of smallholder farmers to communities, ecosystems and even food security is often underplayed, as allAfrica discussed in an interview with Gates Foundation's agricultural development chief.
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As the country's growth is lagging behind that of many smaller African economies, smallholder agriculture has the potential to alleviate poverty and spur general economic growth, a ... Read more »
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Former United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan, Melinda Gates, and other high level delegates at the 2012 African Green Revolution Forum have called for governments and private ... Read more »
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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.
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