Ukraine Grain Export

Sri Lanka is a good example. On an island where 15 million out of its 22 million people rely on farming, over 90 percent of them had used chemical fertilizer.

To prevent the drain of foreign exchange reserves, all fertilizer imports were completely banned. Sri Lanka was declared a 100% organic farming nation. This policy, which was withdrawn in November 2021, led to a drastic fall in agricultural production and more imports became necessary.

But foreign exchange reserves remained under strain. A fall in the productivity of tea and rubber due to the ban on fertilizer also led to lower export incomes. Due to lower export incomes, there was less money available to import food and food shortages arose.

The unintended consequences of "going green".

August 4th: First ship, loaded with corn, now on her way to Tripoli having passed Turkish, UN, Russian and Ukrainian inspection yesterday.

Noting the significance of your nick-name, I would ask not blaming the former Colonial governments for the nations they invented failing years after independence, provided they had handed the countries back in full working order they thought would thrive. (Some, notably France, did not care about that.)

The Africans naturally wanted to stand on their own two feet on what is undeniably their own territory, although divided by borders invented by the European settlers, not their own cultures. Once on their own feet though, if their own agriculture or other industries later collapsed as it has in some, the locals allowed that to happen.

Some ran themselves very well for long after independence, but now suffer from corruption, internecine fighting, insurgency and other domestic evils. Or became taken over later by sheer despots with no idea how to administer a country - Zimbabwe's President Mugabe being perhaps the prime example.

To be fair though, some of those countries are also endangered by self-serving external interests: e.g. the social neglect and corruption around Western oil companies in Nigeria (encouraging bandits like Bokul Harun); the new imperialism by Russia (USSR and RF) and China more widely.

Much in agriculture has changed and often emigration and governments drive that. Farms is say Poland a lack of young people seeking a rural life, farms bought and amalgamated by huge agri business companies and monoculture crops. 1 man - big machines. There is at least one UK farmer in Russia with Chinese staff. Over all farm land now under forestry. Great until we need food. I agree the that the African issue is at one sad and a huge error. I recall when Idi Amin was evicting and making life difficult for some Ugandans. The people that moved to Scotland were in the main Lawyers and University staff.

But no government opposed medical apartheid segregation via trying to force people to get jabbed for Covid, which has now proven to be a failure in itself.

The British are were wrong to oppose aparthied south africa, atleast the good boers de nuclearised south africa.

Gee, I remember when the US was the great grain provider, saving the USSR, etc. with our exports.