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Lol, "all it needs is water" is a bit reductionist. Obviously there are a ton of factors why certain stuff is still grown in Europe despite it being economically challenging to do so. Some of it is the actual will to keep certain products typically local, for cultural reasons that are not going to change. Besides, the few times African countries ended up being economically reliant on crops for exports to rich markets, disaster followed when prices dropped (as they are wont to do from time to time). They are currently busy exporting all they can to China anyway...

The African issues are many and multi-faceted, they won't be solved by growing more stuff than they already do.



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