Sunday 16 March 2008

Why vertical approaches to African Agriculture don't work

Interview with Paul Mafuka, Director General of INERA - Kinshasa, DRCongo

Paul Mafuka compares the present approaches such as the African Green Revolution to emergency approaches in the medical field: malaria and HIV/AIDS. The danger is to create parallel structures which do not take into account the structures which exist already. He wonders how long an emergency approach will remain an emergency and warns for donor policies motivated by panic.

THIS INTERVIEW WAS SAVED FOR ACCESS IN LOW BANDWITH (and thus reduced image quality)