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The Dilemma of Tropical Africa in the Pursuit of Sustainable Agriculture: the Human Factor

机译：追求可持续农业的热带非洲困境：人为因素

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The proverbial lack of food security in tropical Africa is largely due to man-made encumbrances, which impede the adoption of innovations to tame the poor soils, circumvent the high tropical insolation, and erratic rainfall, control pests and diseases, minimise storage losses, etc. These human constraints include the land tenure system, unavailability and high cost of credit, traditional premium on high fecundity, civil strife, the inimical international economic order, etc. Of all these, the most intractable is the international economic system which causes Africa's foreign exchange earnings to decline even though her exports are increasing, and make it more expensive to produce goods locally than to import them. To achieve sustainable food security, tropical Africa needs to provide rural infrastructure such as storage depots, irrigation facilities, feeder roads, etc.; establish efficient haulage; revamp tertiary education; strengthen farm advisory service including a good market information management system; and assist farmers to procure and use farm inputs e.g. fertiliser, machinery, pesticides, etc. To be able to effect these reforms, tropical Africa will need: a) about 200 billion US dollars from countries of the north, b) a new more equitable world economic order to enable Africa obtain fair export earnings and protect her fragile infant industries from subsidised overseas products, and c) borrow from the vast experience of entrepreneurs of the north. The north should deign to help because the growing void between the haves and have-nots of the human race undermines international security. For sustainable world peace it behoves mankind, led by the advanced countries, to move away from the present spirit of the 'struggle for existence and survival of the fittest', to a new paradigm where each human being has a fair opportunity to earn a satisfactory standard of living.
机译：众所周知，非洲热带地区的粮食安全缺乏主要是由于人为负担，这阻碍了采用创新措施来驯服贫瘠的土壤，规避热带高日照，降雨不稳定，控制病虫害，最大程度地减少存储损失等。这些人为因素包括土地使用权制度，不可用和高额信贷成本，高生育力下的传统溢价，内乱，不利的国际经济秩序等，其中最棘手的是导致非洲对外贸易的国际经济体系。即使她的出口增加，外汇收入也将下降，这使得在当地生产商品的成本高于进口商品的成本。为了实现可持续的粮食安全，热带非洲需要提供农村基础设施，例如仓库，灌溉设施，支线道路等；建立有效的运输；改善高等教育；加强农场咨询服务，包括完善的市场信息管理系统；并协助农民采购和使用农业投入物，例如为了实现这些改革，热带非洲将需要：a）北部国家约2000亿美元，b）更公平的世界经济新秩序，以使非洲获得公平的出口收入并保护其脆弱的婴儿产业免受补贴的海外产品的侵害，并且c）借鉴北方企业家的丰富经验。北方应该决定提供帮助，因为人类的贫富之间日益扩大的空缺破坏了国际安全。为了实现世界的可持续和平，以先进国家为首的人类应该摆脱目前的“适者生存和生存斗争”的精神，走向新的范式，使每个人都有机会获得令人满意的生活水平。

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