great giornata internazionale per l'Africa organized by the African Diaspora to be held May 24, 2009, instead of 25 in Rome. The African Lounge
will : Summary
speech on the theme
Africa: food for all, a dream or reality?
operative Dr . Bin Kazadi Mulumba (President of the African Lounge)
not only ensure food security in the sense of providing the entire African population access to food, but also be able to guarantee the quality of all products food consumption. In fact, huge risks can arise for harmful chemicals, problems of poor food storage, or problems related to viruses of all kinds. Access to food must not and can not even access to healthy food. In general, products made from agriculture, which uses little fertilizer and other chemical agents are considered to be of high quality and good taste, but it remains today the challenge of distribution channels, the challenge of conservation, marketing, and challenge of the industrial transformation of agriculture and pastoralism. The optimization would certainly
industrial GDP growth, stimulate the creation of new jobs. It would, however, necessary and useful that this will follow a rhythm in harmony with the whole productive. Industrialization must be sustainable, must ensure biodiversity. For this there is the need for agricultural and industrial policies consistent and harmonious. Policies that force not only to big landowners, small landowners but also to the producer or farmer.
The African continent has enormous potential for all types of agro-pastoralism, but also has enormous difficulties with regard to food self-sufficiency. In some countries, see Angola, Mozambique, Stano of implementing real reforms in policies that make us hope for the better. The road to a global self-sufficiency is not impossible, but the challenges of order environmental, social, political, and finally difficulties due to armed conflicts and even more corruption.
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