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...also brings with it an opportunity - for Africa to grow and sell more food for domestic consumption and export. Namanga Ngongi, president of the Nairobi-based Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa, told delegates that Africa could follow Asia's example and achieve a dramatic increase in agricultural output. That's true, but only 4% of national budgets are currently spent on agriculture, and investment is hampered by precolonial land rights that still prevail in most of sub-Saharan Africa. Meanwhile the cost of fertilizer has risen even more dramatically than the cost of fuel, leaving farmers facing...
...There's little immediate relief in sight, because Africa's farmers face their own inflation problems and can't easily boost output. The FAO predicts that food prices will remain high for years to come, but that galloping price rises will begin to slow down. For poor farmers that is little cause for cheer. The surging price of oil has made using tractors costly, and the cost of fertilizer has doubled in Uganda over the past year, says Kenneth Kaboi, a 19-year-old farmer who was out in his family's maize field recently in Uganda's lush Kapchorwa...
...Ultimately, solutions will come not from miracles, but from markets. Farmers worldwide are responding to higher prices by boosting output. The FAO predicts that European countries, as well as India and China, will increase harvests this year. As the world begins growing more food, inflation is expected to ease. But the bountiful days are gone. Over the next several years, "food prices are likely to be 30 or 40% higher than they were at the beginning of this century," says Steve Wiggins, rural-policy researcher at the Overseas Development Institute in London. For the world's impoverished masses, who already...
...Cloud Gate also distorts Kapoor a bit--at least in the U.S., where his complicated output is always in danger of being overwhelmed by this one singular sensation. You get a much firmer picture of him in "Anish Kapoor: Past, Present, Future," an indispensable show that runs through Sept. 7 at the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) in Boston. Organized by Nicholas Baume, the ICA's chief curator, it brings 14 Kapoors dating from 1980 to the present into a single long gallery that's also something of a fun house, assuming that a fun house can be smart, subtle...
...Senelick also leveled criticism at the artistic output of the A.R.T. According to Senelick, the theater’s recent productions were considered “outdated or offputting” by members of the Cambridge drama community. Senelick said the A.R.T. requires greater changes to earn back its relevance...