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Correspondence
Nature 405, 993 (29 June 2000) | doi:10.1038/35016739
Africa needs locally trained soil specialists to improve land use
Dan H. Yaalon1
- Institute of Earth Sciences, Hebrew University, Jerusalem 91904, Israel
I commend and support Willy Verheye's suggestion in Correspondence1 that improved road systems to markets and fair price-setting will allow inland African farmers to compete better with those who sell cheaper imported foods. However, his corollary suggestion of using the "large untapped land-use potential" in this part of the world to increase food production is contrary to sensible notions of development and land management, for several reasons.
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