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Rural Development - Eco-farming is Key

Rural Development - Eco-farming is Key to Which Way Forward in Africa! * The picture below of young girl and the sacred Tano River where the sacred cat fish lives . “Agro-ecological farming/Ecofarming can feed the world and save the climate,” (UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, Olivier De Schutter), said in a report dated 22 June 2010 – “Agro-ecological farming (Ecofarming) improves food production and farmers’ incomes while at the same time protecting the soil, water, climate, and can feed an estimated world population of nine billion people by 2050, and go a long way to save the climate, if implemented now.” He makes it clear in the report that….”scant attention has been paid to the more effective agro-ecological methods. …with more than a billion hungry people on the planet, and the climate disruptions ahead of us, we must rapidly scale up these sustainable techniques,” De Schutter said, …”agro-farming is a way of addressing global hunger, climate change, and the de...