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Re-Colonization Of Africa Through Buying Agricultural Land: Wealthy Nations And Their Multinationals On The Rampage
AFRICA’S WILLED RECOLONISATION By Akinyi Princess of K’Orinda-Yimbo The global food crisis of 2007/2008 that triggered riots from Cape to Cairo and from Senegal to Haiti made governments and their agriculturally-engaged companies to get on the saddle and gallop – with their thinking caps on. Export tariffs were slapped on staple food crops to minimise how much could be sold outside their countries. In my book – Darkest Europe and Africa’s Nightmare: A Critical Observation of Neighbouring Continents, I mentioned, rather apocalyptically, that if we Africans don’t take care then the outside world will turn our continent into “a timber plantation.” This is now happening, but on a worst-case scenario. Africans are being colonised again and this time not with the power of weapons but through Africans themselves selling their continent willingly. … Read entire article »
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Soybean Farmers’ Focus On Sustainable Agricultural Methods Featured On New Web Pages
St. Louis, MO-IL – Without fertile land, clean water and ample natural resources, farmers and ranchers can’t do their jobs of producing sustainable foods to feed our growing world. As the United Soybean Board points out on the group’s new Web pages, today’s agriculturalists embrace these contemporary production methods and technologies like by no means just before to help contribute to sustainable agriculture and food security for our growing planet. Conservation tillage serves as an integral part of crucial sustainable agricultural methods important to our food security, as it serves as a way of growing crops from year to year with out disturbing topsoil. By minimizing tillage, farmers can decrease erosion and enhance the amount of water and carbon that stays trapped in the soil and accessible to their crops. This … Read entire article »
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Sustainable Agriculture
Sustainable agriculture is the power of a farmer to produce food in such a way that the environment and surrounding ecosystem, is unaffected by their agricultural activities. There are 2 difficulties that are connected with this type of agricultural activity which are the biophysical issue and social-economic concern. Biophysical is connected to the biological activities like crop rotation, usage of fertilizers and artificial nutrients and the provision of the other resources such as water, wind and sunlight whereas social-economic is concerned with the utilization of farmers, the price of production and total yield. Talking concerning the physical attributes of sustainability, it is not properly understood. Most farming practices show that the tip outcomes of these practices has resulted in soil erosion, salination and water-logging. Most forests and tropical areas have lost … Read entire article »
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