Final thoughts...
I want to use this last blog post to wrap up my thoughts around what I have written over the past few weeks and also what I have learned in the process. Before starting this blog, I had some general ideas about food and water in Africa, but I didn’t realise how much potential there actually is to the future of food security in Africa. There have been some amazing case studies and approaches to show new (and old) ways to tackle some of the problems Africa is facing. For example, I have found agroforestry and saline water as an irrigated technique very interesting approaches and these could be implemented by the local people with the help of NGOs or governments that fit the local communities. On that note, one of the most interesting topics has definitely been African indigenous knowledge systems and how this could be the key for many African countries to come out of the poverty trap and alleviate the problems related to food security and access to water. Although I have conc...
