So much land and all of it is just awful. What a waste.
Yeah. And find out what happened to Alaska. That's a serious chunk of real estate they're conveniently leaving out of the picture.Things I learned today: We need to get the Chinese out of Florida.
Things I learned today:We need to get the Chinese out of Florida.
Incredible to think that such colossal distances can be covered in hours. That blows my mind.That is cool! I particularly liked the imposition of the UK over Madagascar. Forever the forgotten island! Ha!
I was in no doubt as to the size of it when I flew back to London from Cape Town and it took 12 hours, non-stop; that's longer than it took to fly back from Bangkok.
I particularly liked the imposition of the UK over Madagascar. Forever the forgotten island! Ha!
Did whatsisname win your election or was it the other guy?
Well the UK doesn't have anything cool like lemurs to help people remember it.
Things I learned today: We need to get the Chinese out of Florida.
By the look of the map you need to get them out of Congo and Angola too.
By the look of the map you need to get them out of Congo and Angola too.
So much land and all of it is just awful. What a waste.
Pretty sad attempt at apologetics.To be fair, a lot of it is more or less useless desert. There is also the fact that the natural environment in Africa tends to be a lot more hostile towards human beings than most of the of the rest of world. Our species evolved in Africa, and so the local ecosystem has developed a level of defense against us which does not exist on any other continent.
This probably played a role in preventing local human populations from being able to quite "run the tables" on nature in the same way that they did in other regions, which slowed the pace of civilization's development in sub-Saharan Africa relative to the other continents we colonized.
You can't get rid of The Elephant in the Room. Pun intended.The potential for agriculture to disentangle Africa from its cycle of poverty and turn it into the world’s breadbasket is evident. Conservative estimates position Africa’s current agricultural output to increase from $300 billion a year today to $500 billion by the year 2020 and would reach $ I trillion by 2050.
However, for these figures to be attained, the current system of aid that is failing African agriculture must cease. Africa’s own agrarian expertise—a combination of the science of agriculture, indigenous knowledge and the African farmers’ entrepreneurial spirit—must become the channel for agricultural productivity and growth.
The paradoxical world we now live in finds most people in Africa thin, without enough to eat, and those in the developed world with too much to eat and fighting obesity. In 1980, the world ate 133 million tonnes of meat and drank 342 million tonnes of milk. By 2002, consumption had increased to 239 million tonnes of meat and 487 million tonnes of milk. The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) estimates that by 2030 global annual consumption of meat will stand at 373 million tonnes and 736 million tonnes of milk.
Africa has 60% of the world’s Uncultivated Arable land and More arable land than the continents with the highest populations.
The continent is endowed with 733 million hectares of arable land, accounting for 27.4% of the World Total. Latin America is made up of 570 million hectares with Asia stands at 628 million hectares. In Sub-Saharan Africa if land was distributed equitably, each person would be allocated 0.3 hectares of arable land.
Africa’s current Low crop yields per hectare makes agriculture the most prospective investment with a guaranteed return once sustainable farming methods and new technology are introduced.
Case in point: the current average yield of rainfed white maize in Sub-Saharan Africa is 1.1 tonnes per hectare. By merely adapting irrigation methods and yet maintaining the work ethic, a 500% increase in yield can be attained bringing this harvest figure to 5.5 tonnes of grain per hectare."..."
Pretty sad attempt at apologetics.
The countries with the highest GDPs in Africa (aside from SA) are the about the most Desertified, while many of the countries with the lowest are rich in arable land and resources.
Africa is far better endowed resource-wise than Asia or Europe or Frozen rocky Scandinavia: Diamonds, Gold and other Metals, Oil, Arable land aplenty.
Japan has virtually No resources of any kind and Alone has 3x the GDP of whole continent of Africa. China similarly non-endowed.
The UK has Less resources than similarly sized Madagascar but 500x the GDP.
Scandinavia, even before North Sea oil, was infinitely more hostile than Most of Africa.
The places in Africa that are successful were Only made so by Euro colonists and were no more "hostile" than anywhere else.
Africa – the World
Africa – the World’s Potential Food Producer
November 7, 2011 by Phil Matibe
You can't get rid of The Elephant in the Room. Pun intended.
A continent is bigger than countries. I'm ****ing shocked.
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