# Competing narratives for the future of agriculture in Africa In this session, we will discuss about the competing narratives for transforming African agriculture/ food system. In the West, everyone has a solution for Africa. They propose a Green Revolution and other failing and destructive approach to food, agriculture, and the environment into Africa must be challenged. And it has been challenged. Agroecology is a realistic strategy for improving our nutrition, increasing production, enhancing biodiversity, raising resilience, and boosting farmer income. with **Million Belay** **Date**: Tuesday November 2nd of 2021 **Time**: 14:00 (UTC/GMT) **Your localtime:** **Duration:** 90 minutes **Join in link:** https://globaltapestryofalternatives.org/webinars/live
action script subpagedb.php thanks "Thank you for registering!" Fieldset "Registration (optional)" hidden "Lang" "=en" hidden "Date" "=@DATE@" Textbox "Name" email "E-Mail" ! select "Country" "Afghanistan|Åland Islands|Albania|Algeria|American Samoa|Andorra|Angola|Anguilla|Antarctica|Antigua & Barbuda|Argentina|Armenia|Aruba|Ascension Island|Australia|Austria|Azerbaijan|Bahamas|Bahrain|Bangladesh|Barbados|Belarus|Belgium|Belize|Benin|Bermuda|Bhutan|Bolivia|Bosnia & Herzegovina|Botswana|Brazil|British Indian Ocean Territory|British Virgin Islands|Brunei|Bulgaria|Burkina Faso|Burundi|Cambodia|Cameroon|Canada|Canary Islands|Cape Verde|Caribbean Netherlands|Cayman Islands|Central African Republic|Ceuta & Melilla|Chad|Chile|China|Christmas Island|Cocos|Colombia|Comoros|Congo - Brazzaville|Congo - Kinshasa|Cook Islands|Costa Rica|Côte d’Ivoire|Croatia|Cuba|Curaçao|Cyprus|Czechia|Denmark|Diego Garcia|Djibouti|Dominica|Dominican Republic|Ecuador|Egypt|El Salvador|Equatorial Guinea|Eritrea|Estonia|Eswatini|Ethiopia|Falkland Islands|Faroe Islands|Fiji|Finland|France|French Guiana|French Polynesia|French Southern Territories|Gabon|Gambia|Georgia|Germany|Ghana|Gibraltar|Greece|Greenland|Grenada|Guadeloupe|Guam|Guatemala|Guernsey|Guinea|Guinea-Bissau|Guyana|Haiti|Honduras|Hong Kong SAR China|Hungary|Iceland|India|Indonesia|Iran|Iraq|Ireland|Isle of Man|Israel|Italy|Jamaica|Japan|Jersey|Jordan|Kazakhstan|Kenya|Kiribati|Kosovo|Kuwait|Kyrgyzstan|Laos|Latvia|Lebanon|Lesotho|Liberia|Libya|Liechtenstein|Lithuania|Luxembourg|Macao SAR China|Madagascar|Malawi|Malaysia|Maldives|Mali|Malta|Marshall Islands|Martinique|Mauritania|Mauritius|Mayotte|Mexico|Micronesia|Moldova|Monaco|Mongolia|Montenegro|Montserrat|Morocco|Mozambique|Myanmar|Namibia|Nauru|Nepal|Netherlands|New Caledonia|New Zealand|Nicaragua|Niger|Nigeria|Niue|Norfolk Island|North Korea|North Macedonia|Northern Mariana Islands|Norway|Oman|Pakistan|Palau|Palestinian Territories|Panama|Papua New Guinea|Paraguay|Peru|Philippines|Pitcairn Islands|Poland|Portugal|Pseudo-Accents|Pseudo-Bidi|Puerto Rico|Qatar|Réunion|Romania|Russia|Rwanda|Samoa|San Marino|São Tomé & Príncipe|Saudi Arabia|Senegal|Serbia|Seychelles|Sierra Leone|Singapore|Sint Maarten|Slovakia|Slovenia|Solomon Islands|Somalia|South Africa|South Georgia & South Sandwich Islands|South Korea|South Sudan|Spain|Sri Lanka|St. Barthélemy|St. Helena|St. Kitts & Nevis|St. Lucia|St. Martin|St. Pierre & Miquelon|St. Vincent & Grenadines|Sudan|Suriname|Svalbard & Jan Mayen|Sweden|Switzerland|Syria|Taiwan|Tajikistan|Tanzania|Thailand|Timor-Leste|Togo|Tokelau|Tonga|Trinidad & Tobago|Tristan da Cunha|Tunisia|Turkey|Turkmenistan|Turks & Caicos Islands|Tuvalu|U.S. Outlying Islands|U.S. Virgin Islands|Uganda|Ukraine|United Arab Emirates|United Kingdom|United States|Uruguay|Uzbekistan|Vanuatu|Vatican City|Venezuela|Vietnam|Wallis & Futuna|Western Sahara|Yemen|Zambia|Zimbabwe|" yesno "Subscribe me for e-mail updates?" "=true value" "!false value" submit "Submit"
$output = shell_exec('wc -l /srv/gta/wiki/data/pages/webinars/2021/06.log.txt | cut -f1 -d " "');$total = $output - 1;echo "There are currently $total registered participants";
## More information {{ :webinars:2021:webinar-banner-2021-06-art.jpg?nolink&450|}}
In the West, everyone has a solution for Africa. Philanthrocapitalists like Bill Gates, Western governments, aid organizations, embassies, colleges, corporations, and certain members of our governments are pushing industrial agriculture on us. They are spending billions to sway governments and turn Africa into a dumpsite for agrochemicals, genetically modified organisms, and outdated technology. They propose a Green Revolution and point to India as an example of success. Yet the truth is that India's Green Revolution was never the raging triumph that its proponents claimed, as ongoing farmer protests demonstrate. In India, the Green Revolution has primarily benefited wealthy farmers, put millions of farmers into debt, degraded their environment, affected their health, and eroded their seed and culture. The Green Revolution there has been a colossal disaster. This importation of this failing and destructive approach to food, agriculture, and the environment into Africa must be challenged. And it has been challenged. Yet agroecology is a realistic strategy for improving our nutrition, increasing production, enhancing biodiversity, raising resilience, and boosting farmer income. But the West has made very little investment in agroecology in Africa because the goal is to take Africa down the path of industrial agriculture. This must end.
## About the presenter ### Million Belay Million Belay coordinates the Alliance for Food Sovereignty for Africa, a network of networks of major networks in Africa. He is a member of the International Panel of Experts on the Sustainable of Food Systems (IPES-Food). Million is a founder of MELCA – Ethiopia, an indigenous NGO working on issues of agro-ecology, intergenerational learning, advocacy and livelihood improvement of local and indigenous peoples. ~~NOTOC~~