The master of shock therapy who handed Russia to the oligarchs is at it again. He has (correctly) identified agricultural productivity and water supply as two areas that need to be fixed to give poor people a chance to succeed in life.
True to his fixation with dough, though, he advocates:
1) Better seeds and fertilizer, both of which play into the hands of MNC's and Big Oil and
2) Piping water from river, across national boundaries etc (citing the wonderful help of a US pipemaker Eagle something or the other for one of his pet projects)
The great man makes no mention of a) organic farming and b) water management and storage on site, probably because those are low cost and their ain't no money to me made by no MNC's.
The many studies and pilot projects (a love of the man) done in India show that organic farming is feasible, is cheaper, and helps with water - remember in this country we get 1 cubic meter per square meter of rain - that is a lot - about 2.5x what it takes to grow wheat.
More on all this in a later, comprehensive, post that is being worked on.
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