Message from rbrady

[Anonymous]

Interesting ideas about commercial farming in Africa for export to China. This could be a great opportunity for both parties. Yet the realities of current dynamics and lessons from the past should be discussed. In such arrangements there is the possibility for unattended consequences. The Irish Potato famine was so destructive for the local Irish who depended on one staple crop to feed their families on subsistence farming and millions starved although there was a striving commercial farming industry to continued to ship grains to Britain albeit eventually under armed guard. Also the successful commercial farms of Europeans that were confiscated by corrupt locals likewise caused famine for the locals.