Less than 1% of Land in Niger is Good Enough to grow Crops

January 14, 2009 · Filed Under Uncategorized 

80% of Niger is desert, and of the rest only 4% is worth trying to grow crops on.”   This is what I read in a fundraising leaflet Save the Children sent me today. If people are starving to death now, when there are rich nations who are able to give food aid, what will happen in the future when the West no longer has sufficient food stocks to feed its own people?  What will happen when 20,000 more square miles of productive land are lost to desert globally every year while world population increases?  My book, Famine in the West discusses this further.

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