Give Smallholder Farmers a Bigger Role – UN Official

In an interview with AllAfrica, the assistant director-general of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and regional representative for Africa, Maria Helena Semedo, discusses what commitments and actions are needed to boost the productivity of Africa's smallholder farmers.

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A livestock farmer on his farm in Dagoretti, Kenya.



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    Nov 13 2012, 13:28

    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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