Posts tagged progress
- Journalist: Do you feel, however, that we're making progress in this country?
- Malcolm X: No, no. I will never say that progress is being made. If you stick a knife in my back 9 inches and pull it out 6 inches, that's not progress. If you pull it all the way out, that's not progress. Progress is healing the wound that the blow made. They won't even admit that the knife is there!
Protesters set up a desk for lost property and found wallets in Tahrir today. Signs in English around the square read:
“Sorry for the inconvenience, but we’re building Egypt.”
Solving Africa's hunger: For the first time, African farmers are being consulted to help solve one of the continent's greatest concerns.
Instead of new hybrid seeds, chemical fertilisers and pesticides, family farmers in West Africa said they want to use local seeds, avoid spending precious cash on chemicals and most importantly to direct public agricultural research to meet their needs, according to a multi-media publication released on World Food Day (Oct. 16).
“There is a clear vision from these small farmers. They are rejecting the approach of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa,” said report co-author Michel Pimbert of the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), a non-profit research institute based in London.
“These were true farmer-led assessment where small farmers and other food producers listened and questioned agricultural and other experts and then came up with their own recommendations,” Pimbert told IPS.
THIS is progress. Self-efficiency and sustainability instead of dependence. This is good.
