WARNING: This is Version 1 of my old archive, so Photos will NOT work and many links will NOT work. But you can find articles by searching on the Titles. There is a lot of information in this archive. Use the SEARCH BAR at the top right. Prior to December 2012; I was a pro-Christian type of Conservative. I was unaware of the mass of Jewish lies in history, especially the lies regarding WW2 and Hitler. So in here you will find pro-Jewish and pro-Israel material. I was definitely WRONG about the Boeremag and Janusz Walus. They were for real.
Original Post Date: 2004-03-02 Posted By: Jan
From the News Archives of: WWW.AfricanCrisis.Org
Date & Time Posted: 3/2/2004 1:48:15 PM
About half of Africa is starving
[Under Colonial rule, Africa was an exporter of food. As far back as the 1940’s Africa exported more than it needed. Look at the state of the continent now. And NO, drought is not the exuse. Thanks to peasant farming and also the impact of AIDS on the rural areas that now we see “famine”. Kindly note that South Africa is semi-arid and gets less rainfall than most African countries. Yet we’re not starving to death. Jan]
About half the countries in Africa have serious food shortages, primarily due to drought, with 93 percent of the continent’s arable land depending on rainwater, the chief of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) said on Tuesday.
Jacques Diouf, who arrived here Tuesday for a regional food conference, told reporters that about 23 out of 53 African states suffered from dire food shortages, the SAPA news agency reported.
“About 93 percent of Africa’s arable land depends directly on rain,” he said.
“This is alarming when one takes into account that nearly 75 percent of the poor live in rural areas and agriculture employs nearly 60 percent of Africa’s total workforce,” he said.
Diouf said the situation would become worse if there was no rainfall in the eastern and southern regions of Africa.
Source: IOL
URL: http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?click_id=68&ar…br>