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When people recklessly use antibiotics to fight a common cold, when farmers use antibiotics to boost livestock productivity, or when pharmacological factories emit antibiotics into the environment to cut production costs, the bacteria that the drugs are designed to kill become immune.
Harnessing this technology to expand financial inclusion would be economically empowering, particularly for smallholder farmers and merchants in rural communities, who could use their mobile phones to access market-price data, transfer cash, make retail purchases, deposit income, and pay bills – all while tending their fields or shops.
Most of Africa’s farmers, working tiny plots, do not produce enough food to feed their families, much less to earn an income.
The root of the problem is that Africa’s farmers are too poor to obtain the basic modern inputs—including high-yield seed varieties, fertilizers, and small-scale water management systems—that could enable them to double or triple their output of food and cash crops.
If organizations like Rotary International can help African farmers to get a 50 kilogram bag of appropriate fertilizer and a 10 kilogram tin of improved seeds, the rise in farm output could be enough to relieve extreme hunger and help farm households begin to earn some income.
Yet Soviet citizens resisted in large numbers;Kazakh nomads fled to China, Ukrainian farmers to Poland.
Individual farmers were taxed until they entered the collective, and collective farms were allowed to seize individual farmers’ seed grain, used to plant the next year's harvest.
It proved impossible to make Central Asian nomads into productive farmers in a single growing season.
The reasons were many: poor weather, pests, shortages of animal power after peasants slaughtered livestock rather than losing it to the collective, shortages of tractors, the shooting and deportation of the best farmers, and the disruption of sowing and reaping caused by collectivization itself.
That study reached a straightforward conclusion: while Africa’s farmers have the potential to meet the continent’s nutritional needs, they cannot do it alone.
Third, regional and international donors must direct more aid to the millions of smallholder farmers who rely on agriculture to make ends meet.
Africa’s small farmers can be integrated into agricultural value chains, but not without first increasing farm productivity.
To improve yields, smallholder farmers need access to high-quality seeds and fertilizers, innovative financing, and modern technology.
Finally, everyone involved in strengthening Africa’s agricultural sector – from donors to farmers – must never forget the transformative power of partnerships.
Rather than working at odds, Africa’s governments, businesses, financial institutions, NGOs, and farmers’ organizations should pool their resources and expertise whenever possible.
While his post-UN portfolio ranged from peacebuilding in Syria to political dialogue in Kenya, he never stopped advocating for Africa’s smallholder farmers.
Sichuan province’s deputy party secretary, Li Chuncheng – known as “Li Chaicheng,” or “Li destroys the city” – was recently arrested on corruption charges for his brazen expropriation of farmers.
A more promising development is that, according to the Third Plenum road map, farmers must receive a fair share of the profits from land-value appreciation, and will be entitled to transfer their land or use it as collateral.
In the past, when cocoa farmers faced diminishing crop yields, they would simply clear forests and start over.
Unfortunately, population growth, urbanization, and weak land rights are driving up demand for land, thereby undermining many farmers’ ability to invest in and replant their property.
To meet global demand for 7.2 million metric tons of chocolate annually, multinationals like Hershey rely on millions of cocoa farmers, each of whom farms a tiny plot, often 1-2 hectares (2.5-5 acres).
To keep the confections coming, we need new approaches to help those farmers grow cocoa sustainably.
Last year, we launched a small pilot program to help smallholder farmers increase cocoa production, eliminate cocoa-driven deforestation, and boost resiliency.
According to Ghana’s Lands Commission, less than 2% of the country’s 800,000 cocoa farmers have a legal right to the land they cultivate.
Instead, farmers access property through informal agreements with a chief or a landowner.
Traditionally, these oral agreements have allowed farmers to clear forests and begin farming.
But once cocoa trees stop producing after 30 years or so – or sooner if disease strikes – farmers must obtain permission from the original landowner to replant.
At a time of historically high demand for land, chiefs and landowners are increasingly refusing farmers’ requests to replant.
That leaves farmers with two options, neither of them good: clear virgin forests and start again or get out of the business entirely.
ECOM has created an innovative financing model that helps farmers remove old or diseased tree, and replant with resilient and more productive hybrids.
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