Friday, 27 March 2009 Famine Used to Hold Bottom Billion at Ransom
"Is it obscene to get European farmers to move to poor countries and feed the hungry?" a delegate in a recent European Landowners' forum asked. To send mercenary farmers to poor countries in the guise of fighting hunger is...
Friday, 20 March 2009 E.U. farmers driving to former U.S.S.R.
I was honoured to participate in a forum of European Landowners Organization. If you are from Africa, you might be mistaken – no – these are not small holder farmers. These are wealthy landowners whose farming activities are...
Tuesday, 10 March 2009 Cast Down Your Buckets Where You Are!
Booker T. Washington's speech on race relations in the United States of America relates this story:
"A ship lost at sea for many days suddenly sighted a friendly vessel. From the mast of the unfortunate vessel was seen a...
Thursday, 26 February 2009 China Seeds Clouds as Bottom Billion waits
Times Online reports that the Beijing Weather Modification Command Centre “gave nature a helping hand” (Beijing blanketed by snow after China seeds clouds to beat drought 20 February, The Times) and successfully...
Friday, 13 February 2009 Farmers in need of Positive Energy
"I do agree with sentiments expressed by analysts on corruption, famine and poverty; but what is on your strategy?" a reader asked. The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) reports that high...
Monday, 26 January 2009 MDGs pushing millions to hunger
The United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDG) might well be pushing poor countries into deeper poverty and famine.
Monday, 12 January 2009 Famine in Kenya exposes bad policies
State of emergency as hunger looms (9 January, Daily Nation) reports that one in every three Kenyans is in danger of starvation and that the Kenyan government has declared the ongoing food crisis a national...
Monday, 05 January 2009 "Man is Food!"
"Man is food" ..... the gravity of this Luhya - an ethnic community on the border of Kenya and Uganda - saying dawned on me over the weekend when men of varying ages engaged each other in a cultural wrestling match. Guided...
Friday, 12 December 2008 No Food No Toilets!
The World food crisis is not something that one can choose to ignore as was recently demonstrated in one of the largest informal settlements in Nairobi Kenya. "Food not Toilets" ( www.youtube.com/watch ) was...
Friday, 28 November 2008 Stewardship Lessons from Financial Crisis
A savings expert attempted to educate farmers on the importance of using monetary savings as opposed to chicken. The story went like this: "If you put your savings in live chickens, and they get a viral attack your savings will...