Inside Story - How can food security in Africa be achieved?
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- Опубликовано: 1 окт 2024
- A major report on agriculture says 'Africa is no longer in the dark'
The Alliance for a Green Revolution - AGRA - says agricultural productivity in the past 10 years has improved lives in Ghana, Rwanda, Ethiopia and Burkina Faso.
AGRA says agriculture is more effective at cutting poverty than other sectors.
The alliance of agriculture experts say countries which acted early to invest in farming are seeing significant growth.
Malnutrition and poverty levels are falling in some of the highest risk countries where people don't have enough to eat.
Farming is a main source of income for more than 60 percent of the work force in Africa.
GDP has grown in countries that have been investing.
But is the success sustainable?
Presenter: Sami Zeidan
Guests: David Ameyaw, Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa report author.
Kees Blokland, Managing Director of Agriterra, advice provider to farmer organisations and cooperatives in developing economies.
Lorenzo Bello, Senior Economist at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
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Food Security can best be achieved by making everyone participate in food production.
The best way is to leave them to their own devices. Stop intervening!!
As African countries improve their capacities they will find solutions for their problems.
Corruption prohibits any improvement on the conditions many encounter in African nations. So, no. There will be no solution without help.
Agriculture is under investment and under education in Rural Areas. Political elite have failed agricultural improvements and political stability will come if rural communities are brought forward with adequate investment into better agriculture use. The middle class will benefit from better agriculture successes but too much concerned investment in cities without jobs for the lower and middle class results yet agriculture can overnight improve job opportunity and bring economic gain for all and feed the population thus benefits stability- historically Africa was a pre Colonial success in feeding itself. Let the rural communities develop with sustainable agricultural growth. Climate control would be assisted by growth in all forms of agriculture and forestation replacement and green walls. The majority are now sedentary so again rural growth will give stability to the working classes of cities. Rivers of Africa can supply irrigation- lets use knowledge and support it bilaterally
There is fast approaching a time where water and food will become an issue to civilisation through equilibrium's born out of natures response to outside cosmic influences alone. It is therefore vital for all humanity to take note of these areas where the main global food bowls exist and preserve their status .The best lands for ongoing development and advancement capacities are in places that are not land locked.Prime examples... New Zealand and Australia.They are both important locations for the security of and prevention of contamination of vital resources humanity will require in the future.
We have heard of late rumours of wars ,we have an ongoing dispute be it some distance from these areas mentioned above but close enough for contamination if the unthinkable accrued. This isn't good news for these water supplies or there food bowl capabilities. Humanities vital survival requirements as I have said at all costs must be preserved .
I don't think I have to add anymore to the above except to say, those who think war rather than consensus is a way to security or ones self preservation are not fit to lead or wise enough to carry this burden of responsibility for mankind.
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A very interesting discussion. I am a believer in empowering farmer cooperatives to achieve zero hunger in Africa, I fully agree with Kees Blookland and the whole Agriterra approach. that in the end it is not the government that will feed the world, the farmers will feed the world.
Propaganda!
Could it be an IDEA to promote birth control and help for women? The people doubled in less the 50 years!"
Absolutely not. Africas growth in population is actually a plus in the long run.
The issue, by the way, isn't how many mouths they need to feed, it's the efficiency of the agricultural industry in Africa.
Dont' you think we are plenty enough in the planet?? Do you mean to destroy all lasting forests in Congo and surroungings???
People who are destroying the Congo forest are not locals, we consumers from the northern hemisphere are to blame for the destruction.
The population is not the main problem because the mortality rate is higher in Africa than the birth rate. Distribution, storage and markets are the main problems for food security, African leaders need to invest heavily in infrastructure in order to reduce the post-harvest waste which has reached 40% in some countries.
Let nature follow its course.