Essay Archive - Tropical Africa: Food Production and the Inquiry
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Tropical Africa: Food Production and the Inquiry Model
Hunger is the result of disasters such as drought, floods, the
changing of the jet stream patterns and other natural disasters.
It has been estimated that one third of the land in Tropical Africa is
potentially cultivable, though only about 6% of it is currently
cultivated. However, to change farming from a low-input, low-yield
pattern to a high-input, high-yield pattern necessitates the use of more
fertilizer and the planting of high-yielding varieties of crops.
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