#Gambia: President Yahya Jammeh told New African, “Every African, every Gambian should realise that food is a very dangerous weapon. A human being can resist poverty for months, years, even abject poverty, but nobody can resist hunger for 72 hours. Agriculture is directly linked to the health of the nation and if you want to develop your country, your people must be healthy and for them to be healthy they must eat wholesome food. Now you cannot ensure your people have a healthy diet if all they depend on for food consumption is imported. We do not even know what they have put in these foods. We cannot therefore be independent if our food comes from foreigners. The Gambian solution is to grow what we eat and eat what we grow – and that is what Vision 2016 is all about, and I am glad many people are seeing that this is becoming a reality.”
Posted on: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 18:10:27 +0000