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Suppose a tree in a virgin forest in Brasil captures C, who is to make cash out of it? The answer depends on a set of...
Dick Veerman
5/6/2021 1:38 am
Why CO2 offsetting will not solve our climate problem
I have been in contact with a carbon ‘bank’ in Australia that aims to make sure the effects of carbon sequestration are...
Mark Soetman
5/5/2021 10:16 pm
Why CO2 offsetting will not solve our climate problem
Indeed, Dick, Dutch farmers are exporting a lot of manure. RVO (Rijksdienst voor Ondernemend Nederland) statistics present since...
Henk Breman
4/26/2021 11:27 am
Why CO2 offsetting will not solve our climate problem
Henk, in your last phrase you seem to be telling us that in the Netherlands C is being burned instead of being sunk in soil or...
Dick Veerman
4/26/2021 12:27 am
Why CO2 offsetting will not solve our climate problem
Dick#4, the technology of using fertilizers in de context of ISFM (integrated soil fertility management), the main function of...
Henk Breman
4/22/2021 5:10 pm
Why CO2 offsetting will not solve our climate problem
Henk, thank you for your very precise answer! Can you define ‘integrated soil management’? I know the concept of IPM. I...
Dick Veerman
4/22/2021 8:21 am
Why CO2 offsetting will not solve our climate problem
Dick #2, using chemical fertilizers in a context of integrated soil fertility management, makes carbon farming at least...
Henk Breman
4/21/2021 8:40 pm
Why CO2 offsetting will not solve our climate problem
At Mr Ehime Alex. Thank you for your contribution. I do not know the situation of Nigeria, but I have worked in two African...
Harm de Vries
4/21/2021 1:05 pm
Central Bank of Nigeria applies Forex restrictions, prices of staple foods will rise quickly
Coen said: "You need to organize the full supply chain, incl. the processing. ... So some fundamental steps need to be taken."...
Walter Haege
4/21/2021 12:49 pm
The Diaspora Potato and Onion Ag-Tech Rescue Initiative in Nigeria
Henk, do you carbon farming makes sense at all?
Dick Veerman
4/21/2021 12:18 am
Why CO2 offsetting will not solve our climate problem
Meanwhile in Nigeria today: due to forex restrictions the prices of staple food will go up even more. Thank you Ikechi Agbugba!
Dick Veerman
4/19/2021 12:01 pm
More people, slow growth - how to boost development in Sub-Saharan Africa?
Dear Jur, thanks for your comment. I agree with you and Kees Blokland that farmers leaving the agricultural sector, without...
Toon van Eijk
4/19/2021 9:39 am
More people, slow growth - how to boost development in Sub-Saharan Africa?
Toon #16, the question you ask about how to reconcile both levels (micro and macro) of analysis and recommendations is of course...
Jur Schuurman
4/18/2021 7:04 pm
More people, slow growth - how to boost development in Sub-Saharan Africa?
We're talking. Just talking. Talking about a situation that, in Nigeria for example, is perhaps on the brink of an Arab -...
Dick Veerman
4/18/2021 3:40 pm
More people, slow growth - how to boost development in Sub-Saharan Africa?
Leo and Niek, thanks for this interesting and relevant article. Since I have been involved in discussions with Niek Koning and...
Toon van Eijk
4/18/2021 1:01 pm
More people, slow growth - how to boost development in Sub-Saharan Africa?
We need to be more proactive to ensure that our ecosystem remains balanced at all times. That knowledge is present here on a...
Arnold van Woerkom
4/17/2021 5:25 pm
'Silent' Health Killers in Farming
During my Sahelian years, I have tried to estimate the West African C-sequestration potential for the main agro-ecological...
Henk Breman
4/16/2021 8:12 pm
Why CO2 offsetting will not solve our climate problem
Thank you Dick! Responding to Henk Breman #11, I agree with him 95%. For such an interesting article and read, I wish to commend...
Ikechi Agbugba
4/15/2021 9:11 pm
More people, slow growth - how to boost development in Sub-Saharan Africa?
#11 Henk, probably we agree that a situation specific combination of using fertilisers and 'agro-ecological' measures will help...
Gerard Oomen
4/15/2021 9:32 am
More people, slow growth - how to boost development in Sub-Saharan Africa?
And, dear African friends, how do you feel about agro-ecology and the way white NGO's and personalities promote it? Please feel...
Dick Veerman
4/15/2021 12:45 am
More people, slow growth - how to boost development in Sub-Saharan Africa?
Babatunde Olarewaju, Hugue Nkoutchou, Ikechi Agbugba, as we are co-organizing our very first GAPPAP webchat - global...
Dick Veerman
4/15/2021 12:40 am
More people, slow growth - how to boost development in Sub-Saharan Africa?
Gerard #7, your reference “food sovereignty” gives me more the fieling of a religion than of an agricultural system. I share...
Henk Breman
4/14/2021 9:18 pm
More people, slow growth - how to boost development in Sub-Saharan Africa?
Jur #8 , you are completely right: for many small farmers, low-input techniques are more profitable than modern high-inputs...
Niek Koning
4/14/2021 1:35 pm
More people, slow growth - how to boost development in Sub-Saharan Africa?
#7 Henk, as far as I know , "agro-ecology" started as a science, that studies the ecological processes within an agricultural...
Gerard Oomen
4/14/2021 11:22 am
More people, slow growth - how to boost development in Sub-Saharan Africa?
Thanks for your reply, Niek #5. I have looked at the link you gave and wonder if this is really an example of "agro-ecological...
Jur Schuurman
4/14/2021 9:47 am
More people, slow growth - how to boost development in Sub-Saharan Africa?
Trial and error can certainly help, but not reveal everything. For example, low yields can be caused by lack of nitrogen or...
Wouter v.d. Weijden
4/13/2021 10:47 pm
Farm Mapping: the Future of Efficient African Farming
Sorry, Gerard #1, the site Songhai.org does not speak about agro-ecology, but about organic agriculture. One of the sentences:...
Henk Breman
4/13/2021 10:38 pm
More people, slow growth - how to boost development in Sub-Saharan Africa?
Thank you for this publication, very interesting indeed! Also with regard to generalized trust – is a sine qua non for the...
Frans de Jong
4/13/2021 4:53 pm
More people, slow growth - how to boost development in Sub-Saharan Africa?
Jur #4 , for the NGO-current we are criticizing, see e.g. this link for an example. About the (non-)realization of the...
Niek Koning
4/13/2021 1:48 pm
More people, slow growth - how to boost development in Sub-Saharan Africa?
What an excellent article by Niek and Leo - congratulations! The whole reasoning is solid and hard to refute. I have but two...
Jur Schuurman
4/13/2021 12:49 pm
More people, slow growth - how to boost development in Sub-Saharan Africa?
I know little about the Songhai System, but since Gerard #1 wrote it did not exclude fertilizers, there may be little difference...
Wouter v.d. Weijden
4/13/2021 11:54 am
More people, slow growth - how to boost development in Sub-Saharan Africa?
Gerard, we don't criticize individual agroecological projects. What we are criticizing is Western NGOs that assert that African...
Niek Koning
4/13/2021 10:44 am
More people, slow growth - how to boost development in Sub-Saharan Africa?
"We think it is time that Africans take matters into their own hands, and decide for themselves what is needed to make their...
Gerard Oomen
4/13/2021 10:02 am
More people, slow growth - how to boost development in Sub-Saharan Africa?
Your both submissions are in order. Considering the nature and fragility of tomato fruit, I must say that any intervention that...
Ikechi Agbugba
4/11/2021 8:52 pm
The Diaspora Potato and Onion Ag-Tech Rescue Initiative in Nigeria
I fully agree! But you don't have to shift to San Marzano industrial tomatoes ;-)
Dick Veerman
4/11/2021 8:40 pm
The Diaspora Potato and Onion Ag-Tech Rescue Initiative in Nigeria
#8 Dick, a grower on it’s own, can’t solve this issue. You need to organize the full supply chain, incl. the processing. And...
Coen Hubers
4/11/2021 5:30 pm
The Diaspora Potato and Onion Ag-Tech Rescue Initiative in Nigeria
And that means it can't be an opening option for Nigerian tomato growers to sell their stuff in town instead of letting it rot...
Dick Veerman
4/11/2021 4:51 pm
The Diaspora Potato and Onion Ag-Tech Rescue Initiative in Nigeria
#6 Dick, again a different story. This a by-product of their regular production for the fresh market. This cannot exist on...
Coen Hubers
4/11/2021 4:45 pm
The Diaspora Potato and Onion Ag-Tech Rescue Initiative in Nigeria
O yes, I know. Canned and sauced tomatoes are a different variety (San Marzano in Europe, if I'm not mistaken). But did you...
Dick Veerman
4/11/2021 4:26 pm
The Diaspora Potato and Onion Ag-Tech Rescue Initiative in Nigeria
#4 Dick, but the product you’re wasting is something else than the product you’re importing. A fresh market tomato is...
Coen Hubers
4/11/2021 4:21 pm
The Diaspora Potato and Onion Ag-Tech Rescue Initiative in Nigeria
That’s most likely the case Coen, but the point is: why waste so much in your home economy and import from abroad? You can...
Dick Veerman
4/11/2021 4:04 pm
The Diaspora Potato and Onion Ag-Tech Rescue Initiative in Nigeria
#2 Dick Veerman , it’s a Dutch brand of Ketchup, but it doesn’t contain Dutch tomatoes, probably Italian or Turkish.
Coen Hubers
4/11/2021 4:01 pm
The Diaspora Potato and Onion Ag-Tech Rescue Initiative in Nigeria
Before I got involved in AFN, I was unaware of what is going in SSH Africa or - as this case is Nigerian - in states like...
Dick Veerman
4/11/2021 1:42 pm
The Diaspora Potato and Onion Ag-Tech Rescue Initiative in Nigeria
Ikechi Agbugba , thank you for this contribution!
Coen Hubers
4/10/2021 8:51 pm
The Diaspora Potato and Onion Ag-Tech Rescue Initiative in Nigeria
#6 Dick, yes, how? Maybe, for a beginning, not to write an "invitation" in which you exclude, if you want a discussion...
Frank Eric van der Meer
4/10/2021 8:01 am
Regenerative agriculture – one half of another simplistic dichotomy
#7, Dick, sorry, I saw your comment just now. (the 'green comments' are not in 'reactie-overzicht'). I'll think about the idea...
Frank Eric van der Meer
4/7/2021 7:05 am
Regenerative agriculture – one half of another simplistic dichotomy
@dick. The issue of climate change is still at large lip service. There is still a disconnection between the Ministry of...
Babatunde Olarewaju
4/3/2021 12:14 pm
Climate Change: A Threat to Food Security in Africa
Babatunde, is it really this 100% bad: did your country (Nigeria) completely miss out on climate change in agriculture? How is...
Dick Veerman
4/3/2021 9:43 am
Climate Change: A Threat to Food Security in Africa
Eric, please answer the question! The point I am making, is a simple one: you can make the reproach you did (no doubt about...
Dick Veerman
3/30/2021 9:47 pm
Regenerative agriculture – one half of another simplistic dichotomy
Now Frank-Eric, please tell us how to make for an inclusive discussion. Can you?
Dick Veerman
3/27/2021 10:10 pm
Regenerative agriculture – one half of another simplistic dichotomy
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