60 years after Kenya gained its independence and today this country is a hobbled, nursing home bound geriatrics patient. Inhabiting this patient are 50 million arrector pili in different states of sphacelate.
Aah let me expound further.
One of the biggest issue is the growing demand for food. As we continue to increase our population, we continue destroying the little arable land mass we have ati buroti maguta maguta. Then further stressed by bonobos who go and cut trees just to make charcoal to cook food that needs high amounts of rain water to grow. Clearly something has gone wrong?
The next 50 years Kenya is going to undergo massive desertification if we continue acting like low level primates. Let me offer suggestions to our poor and insightful beggars.
To counter this for starters. We need to build massive greenhouses that will effectively run on solar power. And they’ll supply Kenya with its need of fresh vegetableAnd running on an aquaculture system Kenya will eradicate hunger in under 10 years.
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We need to change our diets. We can’t be eating Githeri like we’re in 1955 being fed by Mzungu leftovers. They’re far variety of crops we can grow to make ourselves food sufficient.
Example: Mathenge Tree ([SIZE=4]Prosopis[/SIZE][SIZE=7] [/SIZE][SIZE=4]juliflora)[/SIZE]
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For the longest we viewed the mathenge tree as nuisance and useless tree. We have no idea that this plant can very well transform the lives of people in Northern Kenya and never have to deal with food aid ever again.
Uses: The seed pods can be grounded down to make flour, and fermented to make wines. The leaves can be removed and be used as forage and allow goats or cows to produce a lot of milk.
The tree makes very superior honey especially if you have a beehive which has medicinal properties and this tree is very highly regarded in its native land Mexico.
The wood is used for parquet floors, furniture, and turnery items, fencepost, pilings, as a substrate for producing single-cell protein, but most of all for fuel. Toasted seeds are added to coffee. Bark, rich in tannin, is used for roofing in Colombia. The gum forms an adhesive mucilage, used as an emulsifying agent. Gum is used in confectionary and mending pottery. Roots contain 6–7% tannin, which might discourage Rhizobia.
In developed countries mesquite wood or mathenge is selling for nearly $5.00 a kilogram. TIME quotes Joe Messina, founder of Mesquite Treat Enterprises, as saying that in Arizona mesquite costs about $100 a cord, which in dry wood approximates 3,000 lbs. In one instance, Messina cleared the mesquite off the land of a grateful farmer, free for the chopping. He sells the wood to restaurants in 50-lb. bags at $12.50 for logs, $17.50 for chunks, and $20 for chips. All this because “Mesquite grilling imparts a sweet smoky burnishing of flavor…an almost imperceptible flavor to fish, though a more pronounced and interesting one to shrimp.”
We have bountiful land that can feed and create wealth but we’re blind.
https://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/duke_energy/Prosopis_juliflora.html
I’ll add more examples.