The Book Of THoTH

According to this article we don't need to be concerned about food shortages anymore.

http://tinyurl.com/mopau7

Anyone know how far off we are from making this happen?

Is there enough political and social stablity in Africa to get this off the ground?

I think the real way to make sure there are less food shortages, is for everyone, everywhere to have a small garden of their own. With a green house you could grow some food all year round.

you would have to heat the greenhouse in the winter here in ny, and in most northern climates. however anywhere where mild winters abound would work fine.

I agree that small-holding is the solution. Small-holders each do their own thing and create micro-economies amongst themselves for much of what they need. Their surplus is traded for cash for what they need from outside. It results in human empowerment. Huge farms make one owner rich while everyone else is just a resource to be used or abused and shifted around at a whim. Besides being a miserable way to treat human beings it also makes for societal instability. Give a man his own land and he has roots. A place to be. Something to do. Self respect.

The other great thing about smallholding is, again, that each parcel of land is used for something different. One of the greatest follies of our "modern" way of life is mono-culture. Huge tracts of just one thing on the same land year after year. It denudes the soil of all nourishment making fertilisers a necessity. It gives pathogens and pests an absolute unending feast making poisons another necessity. But the poisons are also toxic to us. And the fertilisers make the plant grow okay but the food that is produced is just nothing near as nourishing as it could be.

It's time we rethink this madness. It's time we grow our food the way nature does it. Small amounts of mixed plants rotated regularly so that the soil is alive and healthy. So that we can do it without nuking the ground with Roundup and such toxic muck.

And then we can also give up on all this GMO folly. Which is another nightmare in the making.

But can we do it in Africa?

I don't know. I'm not an afro-pessimist some of Africa is stable and some of it is not. Who can say. But I wouldn't bet the future survival of the planet on what the leaders of the African nations will or won't do. I mean look at Zim. It was doing really, really well. A HUGE net exporter of food. One madman and a few years later and it's a one big food-aid disaster.

So I won't hold my breath for politicians and leaders to get things like this right.

Instead I am very busy right now organising my life so that I can in the next few months get out of the city and go live close to nature. I will be doing exactly that: growing my own fruit and veggies on my own bit of land in the forest. I'll supply many of my own needs from my own land, trading with neighbours for what they are growing and, of course, buying whatever else I need - but buying ethically and responsibly. I'm doing this becasue I believe it to be good for my soul to get closer to earth. I believe it will be good for my body to eat uncontaminated fresh whole food from rich, healthy soils. And I believe it to be good for the planet that at least I am walking my talk. I am refusing to support with my wallet practices which are harmful to the earth.

So... I guess what I'm saying is this: I don't know if the world can be changed by expecting the African nations to work together and get it right. To marshal their resources for the common good instead of to feed the greed of the few. I don't know about that. But as it's not something I can do anything about I'm not going to worry about it either. Instead I'll take care of that which I CAN do something about. And that's my plan.

fixed it for you.

Hey Zingdad.. you nailed it

I have a five year plan to be out and off the grid, I believe the barter system needs to come back into effect too..

And what you said about diverisfing crops.. again is right on the money.. we would have so much more variety of food.. it would be great!