Correct, RVtitem. We can see examples of Asian countries that produced an "agricultural revolution" well before all this GM stuff became big news, and it would be a big mistake to hand over our eating to the likes of Monsanto. Relative to the growing population, the food situation in Africa is actually pretty bad: e.g. some UN statistics I look at last year, show that per capita food production since around 1970 has been decreasing at a rate of around 1% per year. We should expect more starving food and more of the usual begging in the coming years.
Apart from the failures that arise from corruption, another failure has been a re-think of systems that we were pushed into by colonialists, e.g. the use of our best land to produce cash crops (without a lot of "value-added") before we can even feed ourselves. Another has been laziness and irresponsibility at the top, the so-called leaders: we have developed a habit of relying on handouts instead of doing for ourselves. Even in Kenya, it is interesting to note that while Jubilee was busy abusing the West over the ICC, the EU was helping stave of mass-starvation in places like Baringo (of all places!). And few Kenyans know that the guarantee for their food security is now in Washington, DC: GoK finally managed to convince the USA government that Kenya should be included in Obama's FEED THE FUTURE program, and so American bureaucrats are busy trying to figure out how Kenyans can keep eating. Meanwhile back in Kenya, it is all about political kelelele and a different kind of eating.
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