Well meaning, but inept...

Abiola Lapite with a particularly eloquent dismissal of a standard form of western intervention in African agriculture:

Western know-it-all flies in, tells the locals that they're doing it all wrong, suggests new-fangled techniques, is paid no attention, gets the government to push the ignorant locals to obey, crop yields rise for a while, expert flies out in glory, then disaster strikes, as commodity prices plunge, soil yields deteriorate, pests run rampant on introduced monocultures, government-subsidised fertilizer is cut back as deficits mount, etc, etc.