The world intensifies its maniacal pursuit of nutritional calories from cereal crop agriculture and totally ignores the long held cultural traditions of animal husbandry. So what are the priorities for African agriculture in the next 15 years? First, we must rehabilitate its soils. Since 2015 has been declared as the UN International Year of Soil, we need to recognise that Africa has some of the worlds frailest soils, which have suffered most from cereal abuse through the almost continuous cultivation of cereal crops. These monocultures have left Africas soils tired and impoverished. Applications of fertilisers will not, by themselves, be enough to save them. So increase their herds of grazing animals whose byproducts feed and rebuild the soil. Nope. Not politically expedient or correct. For sustainable agricultural systems, we need to reconsider our addiction to major cereals grown as monocultures and move from calorie security to nutritional security. For this, nitrogen-fixing leguminous crops have to be part of any solution. I never suffered from a nutty obsession with calories or calorie security, but I only achieved NUTRITIONAL security by shifting to a fresh whole natural low carb moderate protein and high mostly animal fat diet, nutritional security cannot be achieved in any other way, as all low carbers know and the rest of the world is beginning to learn. But just forget about and dont even mention or consider animal farming as part of the solution, just raise more and better carbohydrate plant crops. HBOD! businessinsider/africa-will-feed-itself-within-15-years-2015-1
Posted on: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 23:46:59 +0000
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