Essay about Fertile Ground and Difficult Lifestyle in Angola

Robert Paarlberg examines the rapidly growing Western obsession with organic food in his article “Attention Whole Foods Shoppers” published in Foreign Policy magazine in 2010. In his article, Paarlberg addresses the current issues of global hunger and food crisis, particularly in Africa. He argues, contrary to popular belief, that slow, organic, and sustainable agriculture is an ineffective method to correct these issues. Paarlberg instead states that conventional and modern farming techniques, along with industrialized food production, are the solutions to solving this epidemic of hunger. In his article, Paarlberg uses the combination of ethos, and presenting one-sided evidence (i.e. stacking the deck) in an attempt to convince his audience of the ineffectiveness of the slow agricultural movement as a solution to end the world hunger crisis.

In my research, to understand how we undertake the study of the African experience you have to start in the beginning of time which dates back hundreds of thousands years ago and go into one of the first civilizations known as ancient Egypt. Understanding where the people come from and where they are at today does not even cover a quarter of understanding the true African experience. To understand truly how to undertake the African experience you must understand the social structure, governance, ways of knowing, science and technology, movement and memory, and cultural meaning (The six conceptual categories). With these concepts you understand that in a cosmograph known

Many support agricultural modernization, as a solution Africa’s, and many other impoverished nations hunger problems. This would include the industrialization of their agricultural industry, using modern, genetically enhanced seeds, and fertilizer. Yet, some of the same groups that are promoting the organic movement in the United States are advocating against the globalization of modern industrial agricultural practices (Paarlberg 179). Those who support modernization of such nations argue that the current process in inefficient, and inadequate. They believe that globalization of the highly capitalized, science-intensive, agricultural system that has been developed in the West, is the answer to the worlds hunger problems. They also warn that if the West abandons its current practices, it may fall victim to famine due to inadequate production (Paarlberg 179). However, supporters of organic production point to the fact that each year, approximately ten million tons of chemical fertilizer are poured onto our corn

The plantation was the center of the agriculture life. Large-scale agriculture is still important as many countries rely on these products as they put large strain on export –oriented growth. Only recently has there been any significant attempts at industrialization and many countries are economically backward.

Now, there are several salient points that can be made about Symoné’s comments. Symoné’s concern with her inability to accurately trace her African roots is reminiscent of the Pan-Africanist point of view. In this interview, Raven is privileging the Pan- African point of view, deciding that her blackness cannot be validated unless she can show a clear connection to Africa. The Pan-Africanist point of view came about during the time of 18th century slave revolts and continued throughout the 19th century abolitionist movements and the rise of new antisystemic movements in the 1960s (Lao-Montes 311).

Angola is one of the many African countries which suffered from the Portuguese colonisation in earlier years. The colonisation these African countries suffered from (specifically Angola), began in the mid eighteenth century (Santos, 2010), where European countries identified the many resources that these countries were rich in, and found an opportunity to possess them through migrating to these countries and taking over the governance in these countries, changing the system in a way that was best suitable for them.

This combined with the cultural and geographical distances (Freidberg, 2003, p. 33) has resulted in “homogenisation of the supply chain” in Africa (Freidberg, 2003, p. 34). The major vegetable suppliers are primarily large white-run farms. The author calls them “Benign dictators” (Freidberg, 2003, p. 33). These companies do not only have capacity to supply large quantities of vegetables but are also culturally similar to the supermarket buyers.

Sierra Leonean’s economy has been increasing; however it will take many years to achieve the level of equilibrium between the demand of people’s expectations and needs, and supply from the government to fulfill all these needs. Even thou, Sierra Leone has great natural resources such as: diamonds, gold and bauxite, the country has been struggling with a legal mining of those resources due to a power conflict between the government and rebel’s forces as well as international influence. The dependence of Sierra Leone on more advanced countries, just like in any other example of underdeveloped countries, has been described as: unfair exploitation of human resources, human greed and high price to avoid starvation for Sierra Leonean nation. The relationship is based on uneven opportunities. The advanced countries are taking advantage on their exports of products such as: rice, potatoes, or even drinkable water to Sierra Leone in return for natural resources such as: diamonds that most of the times are being exploited illegally or against human rights. Because Sierra Leone doesn’t have money to pay back or provide products to be exported, the country depends on the foreign aid. One of the members of the Parliament said: “Strategically, trade is the engine of growth. If Kenya has tea, Ghana has coffee and Botswana has beef for trade, can Sierra Leone not export its cocoa and other agricultural products to China, the EU and even to the United States? Sierra Leone’s new vision

Food is a necessary part of ever individual’s daily life. Without food, the body cannot function properly, resulting in poor health, exhaustion, and even death by starvation. Therefore, food insecurity continues to be an international global epidemic. The journal article by Harrigan suggests that the citizens of the Sub-Saharan African country of Malawia are in further poverty due to their lack of food and agricultural resources. The newspaper article from the Guardian tells the real life story of African citizens struggling to farm and find food due to the crop shortages that have spanned Africa for the past two years. This is a current global issue, and the journal and news article prove that there is much to be done in order to help restore

Some of the world’s poorest countries, with some of the highest child labor and illiteracy rates lie in Sub Saharan Africa. People generally associate the region only with poor economic conditions and all of the social disorder that goes along with 3rd World Status. While some of this reputation is deserved, many people are also failing to see the vast potential for this part of the world. There are several factors that African governments should look into if they want to effectively and efficiently revamp this areas quality of life. One way to do so is by improving the more crucial aspects to healthy functioning region, for example, allowing children to possess their natural rights to a decent education. This could influence an increase

Angola, formerly Portuguese West Africa, is the seventh largest country in Africa. The country can be divided into three major regions: the coastal plain, a transition zone, and the vast inland plateau. Angola has a tropical climate with its vegetation including tropical rain forests, savannas, grasslands, palm trees and even deserts. A great variety of animal life ranging from elephants, rhinoceros, giraffes, and even crocodiles can also be found in this African country (Microsoft 1).

In my opinion, based on an application of my personal business study, a solution to solve malnutrition in Ethiopia is to stimulate Ethiopian economy and to increase education standard to raise quality of life and standard of living of people on Ethiopia. I believe that when those who are suffering from malnutrition care more whether they have something to eat rather than what to eat and how to eat nutritiously. The more they have money in their pockets to satisfy their basic needs and poverty condition lessens, the more they care about their well being. The Ethiopia economic condition may be improved by engaging in businesses that the country or each city has absolute competitive advantages or comparative advantages according to Ricardo’s theory that they can produce a particular good or service at a lower marginal and lesser opportunity cost over another trading partner. Even if Ethiopia may have absolute cost disadvantage in the production of most of the goods, a basis for mutually beneficial trade may still exist from specializing in and export goods in which it is relatively more efficient. Nevertheless, according to the research, I found out that problems Ethiopia facing range from political issues to economic struggle to water shortage to starvation which is crucial, immense and importantly interrelated. The suggestions I gave above are a

The economy of Senegal depends on agriculture, particularly the groundnut and cotton farming, which accounts for about 50% of export income (World Bank, 1989). This is due to the countries significance to this sector, after independence the government put in place strategies to increase groundnut production, hence the introduction of a credit system to assist farmers purchase seeds, farm equipment’s and fertilizers at reduced price (Dembele, 2003). This followed the setting up of boards of committees tasked with the responsibilities to set up prices at which groundnut were sold at each season. Further to this, private traders were also prevented from coming into the groundnut market. However, with the introduction of the structural adjustment programme (SAF) the government was forced to remove subsides and abolish the credit scheme for the farmers, also was the dissolution of the marketing board which set prices for the groundnut farmer. While removal of subsides for farmers was imposed on the Senegalese government led to price increase in food commodity, subsequent many people going hungry as they could not afford basic food commodities, notwithstanding the human right abuse (Fonjong,2014). Thought-provoking, during the same period the industrialised world including; United States of America (USA) and Europe were subsidizing their farmers with billions of dollars. Furthermore, the Senegalese government was asked to remove restrictions of importation

This chapter provides a list of the AU projects and policies which are linked to the restructuring of Africa’s economy. The African Union has adopted the NEPAD policy framework as the official African Union method for economic intervention in Africa. NEPAD is the fusion of two plans the Millennium Africa Recovery Plan (MAP) and the Omega plan by former President Abdoulaye Wade of Senegal. It was previously called the New Africa Initiative. The MAP originated from the G8 summit, Japan 2000.1 NEPAD’s key aims are to reduce poverty, and address developmental issues, Africa’s marginalization and women empowerment. Current economic projects of NEPAD for the continent include: The NEPAD Agriculture and Food Security Program, the Spanish fund for Women Empowerment, and the African Continental Free Trade Area and Boosting of Intra Africa Trade under the guardianship of the African Trade Policy Centre, UNECA.

The government of Rwanda has reported that there are high levels of activity in the constructor and the service sector (Plinski). Plinski notes “countries in Africa often see English as an essential tool.” Even for agriculture, the farmers in Africa are solely dependent on their leaders to negotiate exports. The middle man in these transactions could be cut out, and exports could be handled more efficiently. In some cases, it would be much more accurate for farmers to deal with the importers of their crops themselves; they would the would