Agriculture
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What if it is the equivalent, depending on where you are, of the Grand Canal, in terms of tourists, habitation, desalination,
agriculture?
Why do we use chemical fertilizers in
agriculture?
And now, looking at this picture, which speaks for itself, we see modern agriculture, which I also refer to as intensive
agriculture.
Intensive
agriculture
is based on the use of chemical fertilizers.
Modern
agriculture
depends on phosphorus.
On the left side, you see the yield produced using conventional agriculture, with a 100 percent phosphorus dose.
African
agriculture
today is among, or is, the most under-capitalized in the world.
And that business is
agriculture.
So why didn't
agriculture
markets perform to expectations?
Like its agriculture, Africa's markets are highly under-capitalized and inefficient.
We know from our work around the continent that transaction costs of reaching the market, and the risks of transacting in rural,
agriculture
markets, are extremely high.
And in my view, there is simply no place in the world that has grown its
agriculture
on the kind of risk that our farmers in Africa today face.
This innovation is at the heart of the transformation of American agriculture, and the rise of Chicago to a global market, agricultural market, superpower from where it was, a small regional town.
So we feel that we have a winning value proposition to transform farmers' choices, to grow our agriculture, and to change Africa.
I worked on development and
agriculture
issues in the U.N. system.
Of course, I'm not advocating that we all give up
agriculture
and metal tools and return to a hunter-gatherer lifestyle.
With this large brain now affordable by cooking, we went rapidly from raw foods to culture, agriculture, civilization, grocery stores, electricity, refrigerators, all of those things that nowadays allow us to get all the energy we need for the whole day in a single sitting at your favorite fast food joint.
Now there's been a lot of speculation since 2010 about what to do with the vacant property, and a lot of that speculation has been around community gardening, or what we call urban
agriculture.
It wasn't going to be our traditional residential neighborhoods as we had before, and urban agriculture, while a very productive and successful intervention happening in Detroit, was not the only answer, that what we had to do is look at these areas where we had significant vacancy but still had a significant number of population of what could be new, productive, innovative, and entrepreneurial uses that could stabilize those communities, where still nearly 300,000 residents lived.
First, we've already lived through mechanization of agriculture, automation of industry, and employment has gone up, because innovation is fundamentally about growth.
This tool use ability will have applications for smart manufacturing and
agriculture.
To do my part to solve this challenge, in 2012, I moved to a small village in northern Nigeria, in the center of the area most recently hit by the spread of insecurity, brutal bombings and searing poverty, with an idea: Could we create an economic buffer to halt the spread of this insecurity, by unlocking the power of
agriculture
as a job-creation engine?
And to do that, you really have to look first at
agriculture.
And in the measure that we plant stuff, what we learn from
agriculture
is you've got to deal with pests, you've got to deal with all types of awful things, you've got to cultivate stuff.
You start getting this organic agriculture; you start putting machinery onto this stuff.
Machinery, with a whole bunch of water, leads to very large-scale
agriculture.
So what you've been doing in
agriculture
is you start out with something that's a reasonably natural system.
So the lesson in
agriculture
is that you can actually change the system that's based on brute force as you start merging that system and learning that system and actually applying biology.
What happened in
agriculture?
Well, if you take
agriculture
over a century,
agriculture
in about 1900 would have been recognizable to somebody planting a thousand years earlier.
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