Marginal people? No creature is marginal to its own existence. Marginalisation is just a concept incorporated to our “social taxonomy” according to Prof. Paul Richards. Prof. Paul Richards (Technology and Agrarian Development) from the Wageningen University, argues that in ecology and evolutionary there is no such thing as “marginal people.” Everything has its own place. He argues that the creation of “marginal people” is just a reflection of the human need to classify its environment. It is also a reflection of our capacity to produce insidious harm based on our lack of trust on the others ("I trust myself more than I trust others, I can blame other more than I blame myself"). Prof. Richards argues that in early medieval times most social misfortunes were attributed to the unfitness of the rulers (they were accused for either not being able to do their work or to follow God’s desires), and that rulers were often “marginalised” from common society. This started to change during the later medieval period (the beginning of the market economy), when the blame shifted from elites to certain minorities. Something similar was observed in Africa when, according to Prof. Richards, the colonisation period introduced the concept of “marginalisation” of groups hostile to the new elites. This consequently facilitated the moral acceptance and promotion of slavery inside and outside Africa. Vicious-virtuous cycle? Is it something good coming out of this “marginalisation” process? How does it relate to agriculture? Well, the later revolts and the end of slavery created a new flow of agricultural improvements by peasants in Africa. Research by Prof. Richards’ group suggests that new varieties of rice were developed after the emancipation of Africa’s farmers, but the lack of support to local solutions has promote even further “marginalisation”. Even worst, in its initial attempts to support Africa development, the international community tried to apply Asian models (based on land-intensive, labour-surplus) into the land-extensive, labour-deficit reality that exists in Africa. The key question is: Is marginalisation a self-feeding problem?