There was a time when Africa was agriculturally self-sufficient, and the ongoing shift away from globalization, to a so-called multipolar world, could make that real again, Italian economist Nino Galloni said in a letter published today by Il Fatto Quotidiano. https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgzGpGSzPrMZmhqRHggPbLpKBmTdG?projector=1&messagePartId=0.1
The war, “provided that it lasts a few months and does not lead us to a thermonuclear escalation,” is “pulling us out of radical free-market and globalization, confirming the increasing multipolarity of the planet,” Galloni wrote. Italy could favor the relocation of agricultural production in Africa, Galloni suggested, and explained better his thinking to EIR:
“Hunger in Africa began with inflation in the Seventies, after autochthonous grains had been eliminated in order to import low-price grains from Canada and the USA and pro-western ruling classes had been supported. Those elites devastated African economies, importing weapons, luxury goods and low-price grains to be paid in international currency: thus, the population had neither money to buy baguettes nor the old grains. The aid business began.”
“In the current situation, African governments could push a comeback of sorghum, millet, etc., if Russia decides to send Ukrainian wheat not to replicate the old scheme, but as a transition to the next rain season, when old grains can be planted.
“Italy has those seeds and could offer Putin a cooperation to change balances in the Mediterranean.”
