Letters to the Editor
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Not without other changes first
My only criticism is why did you choose Africa, instead of Mexico, where they are feeling the pinch of the Bush ethanol program, felt in rising corn prices. The Bush administration has been in talks to fold the US into a North American enterprise zone, with a single currency, and a single security umbrella for all concerned. Mexico is 3X the size of Texas, and has 12% arable land, but only 3% is irrigated.
To see Africa's problem with argriculture you need go no farther than Zimbabwe. Is the second colonial wave going to have any more last effect? None of the agricultural reforms you mention will happen without the change that would support these improvements. But right now I can hear some Archer Daniels executives dividing up their cyber-plantations, figuring out ways to control the land without a brutal occupying force, or complicit corrupt government officials.