Farm with Shambaboy

Have you noticed how most headlines warn that climate change is destroying the world or that AI will replace you at work?

At least climate degradation can be reversed. I am less confident about the AI part, especially now that some companies have board approval to build humanoids for a more efficient workforce.

But do you know where you will not find humanoids anytime soon? At the farm.

And because we love numbers, here is one worth thinking about.

Africa has about 874 million hectares of uncultivated arable land. That is roughly 65 percent of the world's remaining uncultivated arable land.

Now, let us step away from the habit of buying land whenever we feel the urge to farm. Your kin will probably sell it anyway to take a mortgage for a high priced modern flat in the city. A land leasing approach is far more realistic. You can farm, test, learn, scale, and grow without needing to own the land in the early stages.

If you add best practices to what you already know, you will get more output with the same or fewer inputs. That part has never changed.

One statistic will not change. People will have to eat.

Another will likely outlive the author of this piece. No one is deploying humanoids on African soil anytime soon.

So riddle me this.

How do you think the next posts will look when the author can access Sora 2?

And which other job will have quietly disappeared by then?

So start.

Farm with Shambaboy.

This content might have been created with AI, and the artwork below might have been produced in the same way. If so, those are two jobs already taken by emerging AI.

“No one is deploying humanoids on African soil anytime soon.”