Africa´s Green Revolution

Africa needs a Green Revolution: a major transformation of the agricultural sector. The benefits of enabling this are multiple. Not only can this contribute to addressing the fuel deficit by offering a means to diversify and localize the production of fuel. It will also enhance food security and offers a wide range of livelihood opportunities to move poor subsistence-based farmers and their families out of poverty and into greater economic security. Here too, then, there is a need for a radical re-think: looking at agriculture as a potentially profitable business opportunity, not simply as an aid or development challenge that is only oriented to poverty mitigation.

Alentejo, a Province in Southern Portugal

As I drove over the vast expanses of land that make Alentejo, the Southern Province of Portugal, I thought that all those, all over the world, that are interested in investing in commercial agriculture, food production, biofuels, exotic fruits, should consider visiting the region. There is so much farming land available there, just waiting for capital investment and technology. And the weather, on top of it, is not bad at all.