Water and Development in Africa

I come from an Indian family, where the majority of them migrated from India to Africa before coming to the UK. This has subsequently resulted in there being a strong connection to Africa and its culture within my family. One country in particular is Ghana, and I now have many family members from there hence the interest in Ghana specifically. This post is slightly unrelated to the others, but after researching and writing about this, I was able to give  Agriculture, as a practice is declining gradually in Ghana, but it still holds a pivotal role in their economy. The relationship between different agricultural practices and environmental sustainability poses extreme challenges, but various development countries in Africa including Ghana, have given this topic very little attention.                                                  ...

The whole theme of water and development in Africa is one that I hold very close to my heart. At the age of 11, I went to Kenya to visit family and on this trip we went to a very rural farm and I found it fascinating to see how crops were grown and the methods they had involving irrigation. Although, at that time it was just an initial interest, school and university decisions have allowed me to develop this interest and transform it into a more concrete one.  This first blog post I would like to address what I know already from a general standpoint and what I plan on talking about in future posts. One incident that stood out to me considerably was the Cape Town water crisis. The situation that a city that I have studied and heard all about was in a position where it could potentially have no water supply fascinated me.  What is food security? It is ultimately describes a situation in which people have the access in terms of physical, social and economic access to safe and nut...