A massacre threatens Darfur -- Again
At the Zamzam camp south of the city, one child dies from hunger every two hours, Doctors Without Borders said in February.As the violence spreads, aid workers say civilians are fleeing west and to other parts of Darfur. Those going east have walked up to 180 miles in search of safety, often in temperatures reaching more than 120 degrees Fahrenheit.
I've seen some article titles suggesting a link between internal conflict and lack of soil in places like Syria, though I'm not readily finding such again. It makes sense on the face of it to me. War and famine are two of the "four horsemen of the apocalypse" -- in other words two crises known to go together and either can cause the other (s).
So I think places like Syria and Darfur have conflict because they lack adequate soil. But they have regolith and people.
Regolith plus human waste plus (???) = soil. Places like Darfur and Syria could be used as a lab for NASA to work out basics for how to create soil on the moon when establishing and developing a lunar colony and it can also help reduce privation in some of the most distressed places on Earth.
I believe you can actually reduce conflict in such places with development and I also think if you work out a mix of fruit and nut trees and recipes based on those products as primary ingredients to provide an adequate diet with minimal effort in areas of privation, that's information NASA could leverage for coming up with an MVP for establishing a colony on the moon.