Africa cannot grow enough food to feed itself. It is not feasible toexpect a poor African farmer to spend 400 euro to 500 euro per hectare to grow acrop if he can live on 1 euro per day as many do. For the money he has to spendon one hectare - he can live for a year. The NEPAD conference shows that they are looking at chemical fertilizer as the solution.The reasoning behind this is the success enjoyed by relatively wealthy farmers in Africa(predominantly of European origin), who have enough money to buy fertilizer. "Tè a fatige"

The poor results obtained with organic farming in South Africa together withthe lack of credible research and information, were crucial in the decisionbehind initiating research into organic farming as a discipline.

I found this statement by Joseph Jenkins fascinating:

"There is a disturbing theory about the human species that has begun to take on an alarming level of reality. It seems that the behaviour of the human race is displaying uncanny parallels to the behaviour of pathogenic, or disease-causing,organisms.When viewed at the next quantum level of perspective, from which the Earth is seen as an organism and humans are seen as micro-organisms, the human species looks like a menace to the planet. In fact, the human race is looking a lot like a disease — comprised of organisms excessively multiplying, mindlessly consuming, and generating waste with little regard for the health and well-being of its host — planet Earth."