https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2oL5yhRMbA
This scale helps to see the effect.
https://youtu.be/s_LxzxPkUZY?si=w5RPg9xUS0ADf812
Africa is by far the most represented by poverty (including food security or lack thereof). Poverty affects women more, with female heads of household poorer than male ones, and just over 70% of poor women in the Arab world not completing six years of education.
Africa went from a population of 228 million in 1950, to 1460 million in 2023.
There is no food shortage. If they have sufficient food for 1095 million people they have way more food available than Europe with its 742 million inhabitants.
Politics on the continent is the central issue. Not how other continents can give more free food which stimulates further population growth.
It’s not colonization of the continent fra fucked it up till today. Other nations on different continents have made it just fine. Multiple times. Even Norway was under a 400 year occupation by Denmark.
Ah yes, that notorious occupation where Denmark systematically raped and murdered all those Norwegians, installed a corporate kleptocracy to ransack their natural resources for the profit of people half a globe away, and then spent the next 400 years funding coups and dictators to maintain that corporate control.
I don’t understand the level of ignorance required to even begin to pretend like these were equivalent situations.
Absolutely missed the point.
Would gift you platinum if possible.
Thank you for acknowledging that I am correct.
How come that whole continent, which is the birthplace of homo sapiens, can’t feed it’s population?
Probably from the Europeans pilfering their lands for almost a century.
Damn Euros.
Global climate change and the all the plants and animals that have gone extinct makes Africa a different place than it was when hominids first evolved. And the population sizes were on entirely different magnitudes pre-agriculture. And even then, when they did start spreading, many of them starved or died from other things we would consider preventable in modern contexts.
So whether or not people are currently dealing with food insecurity in Africa has pretty much nothing to do with where humanity evolved from. The explanation for what is going on, even though we have agriculture and could feed everyone, is colonialism.
Slavery. Africans sold themselves out and are still facing the repercussions.
Rather than work together to build wealth and value in their society, they just conquered whoever was the weakest and sold them into slavery.
Warring tribes in Africa sell their captives to the Dutch, true.
European powers have a long history of exploiting African resources and have purposely kept those people in a position to be unsuccessful.
Yes, Europeans are absolutely not exonerated for taking advantage of African slavery.
It’s a shame that such a naturally-rich continent has been existing in relative poverty for so long.
It also goes into how uhh, people have mentioned that economies built around raw materials aren’t as wealthy as those who refine and develop those materials.
I think, though, that is all goes back to slavery. It’s easier to exploit low-skilled harvesters than high-skilled refiners/implementers.
