Keith Hudson replied:
> Africa's climate is such that it could grow more than enough food for
> itself and to export lots more. This is what Africans themselves ask for as
> one of the first steps on the ladder.
The first step must be to feed the locals. As long as millions are starving,
African food exports must not be increased. Btw what ever happened to the
"comparative advantage" ? Regions should export things they have in
surplus, not the things they lack themselves.
Chris
You persist in not wanting to see reality when you don't want to. Millions are starving in Africa because of incompetent governments -- such as in South Africa and Zimbabwe where immense acreages of farmland lie abandoned and unproductive. Comparative advantage can only take place where governments allow it to. In the case of most of sub-Saharan Africa the population is stuck between two rocks -- their own governments, and the food tariff walls of the EU, America and Japan.
Keith Hudson
Keith Hudson, Bath, England, <www.evolutionary-economics.org>
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