“Evaggelos Vallianatos shows how cash-crop colonialism has undermined African agriculture. Now is the time for a return to indigenous food plants……”

5 pages, concluding paragraphs:
“It would not be easy for Africa to return to her pre-colonial culture. The entire international system would oppose that kind of metamorphosis. Even scrapping sub-Saharan Africa’s plantation agriculture alone would cause alarm (and even violence) in Europe, North America and Africa (and probably panic in the international system’s powerful agencies like the World Bank, UNDP, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization and the World Trade Organisation).

Yet, cash cropping for the benefit of a few Africans and foreigners ought to find no more room in Africa. Only then, the gods of Africa would cease weeping – and the lengthy process of reconstruction might have a chance to heal the enormous wounds of foreign domination and ruthless colonialism.

Besides, self-sufficiency in all matters of importance and food self-sufficiency in particular, is of crucial importance. Aristotle called that autarkeia, autarchy, self-sufficiency and thought it was both an end and the best of state policies.[6]

In Africa, agriculture will nurture freedom and democracy when all land from the cash crop plantations passes on to the peasants. In addition, giving land to the African peasants is certain to inspire their distant relatives in the United States, the threatened black family farmers, to keep fighting for their land and freedom.”

The yanks would love for countries to starve to death they they can walk in take it over check for Oil and basically walk all over it as the UK did many years ago.

We cannot just cut people off from life saving food, but politically we need to make these people feed them selves.