tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4057487038565855826.post5459503632322062652..comments2024-02-21T08:52:55.878+00:00Comments on Your Freedom and Ours: Meanwhile, the rest of the world carries onHelenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13799545178433498944noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4057487038565855826.post-30450857674090490692012-05-08T15:02:02.158+01:002012-05-08T15:02:02.158+01:00Lack of secure land tenure in African countries is...Lack of secure land tenure in African countries is a big contributor to poor farming practices. Farmers will not put capital into their holdings if they can be arbitrarily dispossessed without compensation for the improvements they have made. So when the man from the WWF comes along with a government stooge to dispossess him,he is not leaving a massive, irrecoverable investment behind. African governments think no more about dispossessing their black farmers than Robert Mugabe gave thought to the productivity of the one-time white-run farms in Zimbabwe. <br /><br />In the meantime Mr Zuma, the South African president, has been filmed singing a jolly song about machine gunning the boers - to the great approval of a mass rally of his supporters. So we can expect more pictures of big-eyed starving children and heartfelt demands for "aid" which will mostly go into the pockets of political racketeers. Mr Cameron is keen to oblige with 0.7% of our faltering GDP . The figure has such a magic significance that he insists on it even when has to borrow it at interest to give it away!Edward Spaltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04168350315689612490noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4057487038565855826.post-41414113652080307752012-05-07T21:46:14.185+01:002012-05-07T21:46:14.185+01:00The reasons for famine these days are less to do w...The reasons for famine these days are less to do with political culture and more to do with explosive non-european (particularly African) birthrates which have been made artifically high by the white man's medicine and technology over the last 60 years.Willnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4057487038565855826.post-17383587984648508162012-05-07T16:03:46.547+01:002012-05-07T16:03:46.547+01:00I'll say one and only one thing for Ziegler: h...I'll say one and only one thing for Ziegler: he described biofuels as a "crime against humanity”.<br /><br />Amartya Sen said: "No substantial famine has ever occurred in any independent and democratic country with a relatively free press". That saves the UN rapporteur on food a job, doesn't it? (Does a "democratic deficit", such as the one admitted by the EU, make famine in the UK and the other 26 satrapies possible?)Clarencehttp://tinyurl.com/figg387noreply@blogger.com