100 years ago, planet earth was occupied by 1.5 billion people,
today it’s crowded by 7 billion humans, all dependant on the
finite resources that compliment our planet. Hold that thought;
the same planet earth has one-third of it’s land mass under
desert and the rates of desertification are growing fast. In
Africa, the Sahara is reported to be increasing by up to 50
kilometers/30 miles a year, chewing up the Congo forest like
nonsense and the Kalahari is also growing fast towards north and
if these two deserts meet, we are doomed. The primary cause of
this of course is logging and real estate development into the
forests and it is very evident in Kenya where hectares of
indigenous forest lands have been converted into real estate and
other commercial activities. Kenya receives substantial amounts
of rain well-distributed across the country but we barely
harvest this precious commodity. The government’s agriculture
policy does not consider this important and allocate less than
2% of the budget to irrigation.