Ethiopia's booming livestock industry

As populations grow and urbanize and demand for animal products increases, the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization projects that the global meat and milk market will double by 2050. A number of developing countries are seeking to expand and industrialize their livestock sectors to compete in the international agricultural economy. Ethiopia is poised to join the race.

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[Hershey]

Do you see a problem with a prognosis predicated on the demeaning assumption that Ethiopia's current 80% rural, natural resource dependent, population would remain so still a century from now?

One wonders where such a disparaging verdict of many in the West stems from. It always comes in the form of seemingly benign "concern."