I doubt teaching them will work in the long run

There's dozens of stories of Christian missions going to Haiti and showing the people how to farm and then when they come back a year later to check on their progress, the land has completely been salted and ruined because they don't know how to maintain it and they use it for other purposes than farming

They'd likely refuse the help. I remember reading about some case in South Africa where some people's land was entrusted to a tribal council and they refused educational help (but decided not to refuse the government money) offered because they claimed they wanted a black farm to be run by black people and for people not to think that they were incompetent. Ironic considering that the farm was defunct in 5 years and the tribal council had been embezzling the funds

That's why I wouldn't just get people in to show them how to plant stuff. I'd put people through university WELL before any expropriation happened.

Make Farming School Great Again

An actual degree in Agriculture is VERY different to a missionary showing you how to do something.

Take the San out of the reservations and put them through farming school

But these people are both evil and stupid, so they didn't think of that.

The stolen fruit will turn to ashes in their mouths.

It's hard in South Africa and Haiti. These people think this shit happens by magic. They have no understanding or appreciation of how much thought and work actually goes into maintaining a farm in those places.

Most people in the west don't either.

Because they've been told by their leaders that the farmers just sit around and get rich

Farming is a specialist, and under-appreciated skillset.

lol

@Dinosorcerer These people are going to get a rude shock.

Some of them already have, but the lesson hasn't seemed to take

I don't think this has happened in SA yet.

It happened in Zimbabwe a while ago, but no one wanted to learn those lessons.

It's going to happen eventually

Yes, after they actually take the land.

There have been a few isolated cases in SA like the one I talked about above

I have no sympathy for people who steal and murder, then starve as a consequence. However, these people are also condemning innocent children to the same fate.

@Dinosorcerer Got links to these isolated cases?

I honestly didn't think you'd start seeing it this soon.

https://twitter.com/nickmon1112/status/971518456033087488?s=19

How does 2004 sound?

wut

How can you attribute happenings in 2004 to stuff happening this year and last year?

it was during an earlier land reform effort

Oh, what did this effort consist of?

legal shennanigans and corruption warped the law into essentially creating the conditions that new laws the ANC is considering would implement on a nation-wide scale

Considering?

It sounds like a sure thing to me.

well, I say "considering" in the same way a lawyer says "alleged" when they know their client is guilty

it's the term they're using, but make no mistake, I fully expect them to go ahead with this

These people make western politicians look like geniuses.

now the 2004 case is different in that the farmers were actually paid for their land, which probably explains why they offered to help with the farm afterwords

I doubt the people being murdered and stole from will be so accommodating.

my thinking exactly

I wonder if it would be possible to engineer a strange crop plant that can be grown by people with a perception of farming shaped by ideology.