tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14184878.post2454202469012868591..comments2023-10-15T10:29:12.991+01:00Comments on Karyn's erratic learning journey: ...and, speaking of ethics...The upsychohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06345558899662051670noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14184878.post-77643201685807181562009-11-09T09:27:46.011+00:002009-11-09T09:27:46.011+00:00@V_Yonkers I'm not sure that any such expectat...@V_Yonkers I'm not sure that any such expectation was formalised or even verbalised. Training is always a tricky one. Several countries in the developed world launched training initiatives in the region over the years. The problem is that these were always aimed at men. While, in traditional southern African culture, it is the women who work the land. The problem is that they have tended to do so on a subsistence scale, so large scale farming is not really known. <br /><br />I suspect that what was needed was a training solution that took into account the culture of the people in the area. Sadly, this has always been a shortcoming of training provisions that come from well-meaning first worlders. Because the method they're teaching works where they come from, they assume that it will work in whichever developing world country it's being foisted upon... er... offered to... they just need to persuade those people to give it a try. Which is not unlike a lefty teaching a righty to knit/fence/box/whatever left handed, beacause that's how they do it and it works for them.<br /><br />On the other hand, the new owners had probably worked the land for generations on a subsistence basis and it didn't occur to them that those methods weren't going to work on a large scale. People don't know what they don't know, after all.The upsychohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06345558899662051670noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14184878.post-22007537145054510502009-11-06T17:59:25.211+00:002009-11-06T17:59:25.211+00:00Most countries have some type of system in place t...Most countries have some type of system in place to make sure land is being used effectively. In the US, our property taxes means that you will need to pay to NOT use your land. However, if it is deemed in the public interest that the land is used for public use (i.e. public building, roads, parks) then they need to pay the owner to confiscate the land. Granted, it is usually a lower price than you might get if you were to sell it to a private entity.<br /><br />Just one question: when the land was returned, was it with the understanding that it would be farmed and then were the new owners trained to farm it?V Yonkershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11910904367068063554noreply@blogger.com