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He doesn't say what area or which country but I spent a few weeks in Burkina Faso in West Africa. ( it will rank as one of the poorest countries in the world) I
by djb_hackernews 17y ago
He doesn't say what area or which country but I spent a few weeks in Burkina Faso in West Africa. ( it will rank as one of the poorest countries in the world) I hung out with a friend who was working on a food security program for a US based NGO, so I have a good idea about the current conditions.
The farmers are trying to grow crops in terrible conditions and I don't think any amount of money is going to help them. It's just an arid barren soil with absolutely zero infrastructure. Which doesn't really matter because these farmers are trying to grow food just to live, not to sell.
I think most of the country has conditions not suitable for human habitat, but those are the people that need help the most.
- fauigerzigerk 17y agoI don't understand your argument. There are farmers trying to grow food on dry, possibly salty, soil without infrastructure, without fertilizer, without much irrigation, without knowledge of modern agricultural methods, without access to good seeds, and you're saying better methods and better infrastructure, more knowledge, etc would not help them? Why not?