'Barren future' for Africa's soil

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Fertiliser use in Africa is the lowest in the world, at less than 10% of the world average. African farmers are put off by high costs, the report says.

It calls for policy and investment strategies to reverse nutrient depletion and restore soil fertility. These include making the use of mineral and organic fertilisers more economically attractive to farmers.

A summit on the issue in June will look at lowering costs, training a rural network of retailers and expand financing for private importers exporters.
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We're really only interested in extracting Africa's resources. And we want those resources at a cheap price, so the "ownership society" can make billions of buckets of money for wasting and overconsuming, so if we have to kill people to get resources, or set the people against each other, that's what we do.
This is the way we've behaved in he middle east and you can see where that got us..