Up to 80% of Africa’s cultivated land is now degraded by intensive farming and climate change. Together with development economist Carlos Lopes and earth politics researcher Lesley Green, environmental researcher Anselmo Matusse recently co-edited a book of translations of agronomist and liberation leader Amílcar Cabral’s writings on farming and rural livelihoods. Here, he sets out Cabral’s ideas on how restoring the continent’s soils means looking beyond farming alone to the links between the environment, history, politics and society.
