The key to this masterful tale of good intentions gone wrong comes early, when Jeffrey Sachs tells the author that "we have enough on the planet to make sure, easily, that people aren't dying of their poverty" (italics mine). The E-word occurs again during a speech Sachs delivered in 2007: "There's absolutely nothing wrong with African agriculture that can't be quickly improved...you can improve yields by a factor of two or three...from one growing season to the next...Easy!"
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