As what is primarily a climate catastrophe caused by the West continues to plague Africa, with tens of millions facing starvation and starvation in the Horn of Africa, the small underdeveloped country Eritrea is leading the fight to prevent this from happening.
Eritrea does this by carrying out aggressive water conservation actions by building water reservoirs big and small. More than 800 and counting over the last 15 years including 9 large reservoirs, even massive, containing billions of tons of water. Breaking the old reliance on rainfed irrigation is essential for this, with water conservation being key to food security through modern irrigation techniques. This while Eritrea has been hammered by illegal US/unjust sanctions and record droughts.
We lived in Eritrea from 2006 to 2021 and saw firsthand the rapid rate of water conservation. Along with water conservation, the critical task of soil conservation through terracing and reforestation is ongoing, as without these two new water reservoirs will quickly fill with silt making them much less efficient.
In 2008-2009, Eritrea experienced the second consecutive drought in history, the first being in 2003-2004, when rainfed harvesting completely failed across the country. Eritrea’s response, led by Eritrean President Issias Aferwerki, has been to divert much of the country’s limited resources to building water reservoirs.
The results were clear to all and African leaders, including the President of Djibouti and the Prime Minister of Ethiopia, both benefited from guided tours. Today, Eritrea is nearly food secure in the critical area of staple cereal crops like wheat, barley, sorghum and millet. Eritrea hardly imports any more fruits or vegetables and is moving towards self-sufficiency in processed products like cooking oil based on canola production.
To understand this achievement, you must know the history of what can only be described as an environmental holocaust inflicted on Eritrea during the modern period of colonialism.
In the 1880s when the first colonialists invaded and subjugated the Eritrean people, the Italians, Eritrea was almost 1/3 forested. By the time the last colonial power, the Ethiopians, were driven out of Eritrea and the country was fully liberated, less than 2% of Eritrea was forested.
From almost 1/3 of the country being forested to less than 2% forested in less than a century constitutes an environmental disaster that I could not find anywhere else in the world.
When Eritrea became independent in 1991, its leaders had to start rebuilding the country not from scratch, but from way below zero.
So for today’s Eritrea 30 years from now, becoming almost entirely food self-sufficient is a powerful model for the rest of Africa. And remember, this is in a country ravaged by a major drought and overrun by the TPLF terrorist regime in Ethiopia in 2000, where some 40% of Eritreans, or 1.5 million, were driven from their homes and their trusses with little more than the clothes on their backs.
The lesson that needs to be learned for all Africans is that food security is national security and essential not only for a country’s survival, but also for its independence and ability to grow and prosper for Western Bankster institutions. like the World Bank, whose policy opposes food security, and the IMF are determined to keep Africans poor, debt-ridden by predatory lending and on their knees begging for survival from the very criminal Western bankers who have caused their problems first.
Eritrea is not only on the verge of being completely food secure, but is the ONLY country in Africa NOT to accept predatory loans from Western banks like the IMF and World Bank. Food security, financial and political independence, with the rest of Africa becoming increasingly aware of this small but mighty “threat of setting a good example”, it is no coincidence that the LiarsForHire in the Western MSM alongside of their cohorts in the Human Rights Mob are going mad in their efforts to demonize what remains the path to the very survival of the African people as the climate catastrophe caused by the West continues to threaten the continent.
