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Sustainability in 3rd world agriculture
sw writes
Yes. Ideally an aid agency would arrive with information and funding for local schemes promoting alternative cropping strategies, low-tech water retention, primary health care and education. Then at least the people have a chance of producing sufficient food to feed themselves and their children, and start to reduce the birth rate, which eventually means they all have a better chance of finding the time and energy to invent other projects earning money from outside the area. If someone flies in and dumps a factory on them it might provide an opportunity to earn cash, but it'll almost certainly be a starvation wage with no hope of anything better. I often wonder if the pharoes didn't have the right idea. When there is a famine, move in with large quantities of food and then pay people in food to do major works. A drought is an excellent time to do terracing, make reservoirs, dam rivers (well, weir them anyway), build roads, schools, medical centres and suchlike. That way a drought could be used for good rather than harm. -- Oz This post is worth absolutely nothing and is probably fallacious. Note: soon (maybe already) only posts via despammed.com will be accepted. |
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