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Recolonization of Africa through the purchase of agricultural land: the rich countries and their multinationals on the Rampage
AFRICA wanted recolonisation
By Akinyi Princess of K'Orinda-Yimbo
The global food crisis of 2007/2008 which sparked riots from Cape to Cairo and Senegal in Haiti has made governments and their hired-agricultural businesses to get on the saddle and canter - with their brains. Export tariffs have been slapped on the staple crops to minimize the amount could be sold outside their country. In my book - Nightmare Darkest Europe and Africa: a critical observation of the neighboring continent, I said, rather apocalyptic if we Africans do not take care, and the outside world to turn the continent into a "plantation wood." What is happening now, but on a worst-case scenario. Africans are colonized and this time not with the force of arms but by the Africans themselves selling their continent freely. The 99 - and 999-year lease - a vestige of colonialism - can certainly not fool all the people. This equates to a century and / or complete the millennium which means three and a half to 34 consecutive generations of Africans.
Africans are selling the only natural resource, they can not afford to sell - their land. Especially arable land. In Antananarivo, Madagascar, earlier In 2009, President Ravalomanana government was overthrown by angry urban poor who had already spent two thirds of their income on food Since 2008, the massive rise in world prices for commodities such as rice and wheat. It was not only because of his private jet was purchased from a Disney family member for his own use of public funds - no. President Ravalomanana was leasing 1.3 hectares (half the size of Belgium and half arable land in Madagascar) to Daewoo in South Korea for 99 years to grow corn and palm oil and send all the crops during this return period to feed the South Koreans. Daewoo paid nothing: they promised to improve the structure below the island. And of course they provide "Jobs for the people of Madagascar by agriculture, which is good for Madagascar" (read cheap slaves). As usual the audience was kept in the dark. Until the news was disclosed by the Financial Times of London. This is the first government in the world to be overthrown by angry mobs and the military to "land grabbing". Congratulations to the people.
There are over 100 land grabs similar the world since September 2008, where vast tracts of agricultural land are bought by rich countries as well as international companies. Mark Weston Great Britain international consultant development policy does the painting colorful way: "Imagine if China, following a negotiation with a brief British government desperate for foreign money after the collapse of the economy, has purchased the entire country Wales, has replaced most of its residents with Chinese workers, has transformed the entire country into a vast rice field and sent all the rice produced there for 99 years in China ... Imagine that neither expelled Welch, nor the rest of the UK population know what they get in return for this, having to settle for vague promises that the new owners would upgrade a few ports and create jobs for local people.
"So imagine that after a few years - and bearing in mind that the recession and the fall books have made it difficult for the UK to buy food from abroad - a surge in oil prices or an environmental disaster in one of the major producing nations of the world drives global grain food prices sharply upward and out of reach for many Britons. While the next door Chinese Wales continue to send rice to China, the British hungry look helplessly on, ruing the day of their government sold half of their arable land. Some of they plot the violent reversal of the valley of Welch. "
This - vast tracts of land being "sold" to foreigners for "promises" - What is happening all over Africa right now. Except that in my experience Africans are not many that good to organize themselves as a unified force to regain their valley. They would either fall on the other with machetes for a few grains of "kind" soul fell from the air or they turn into a trillion factions with twice the number of "general".
Even the great Pope of the free market, Financial Times used words like "greedy" for the likes of Daewoo, warning that it was the most "brazen example of a larger phenomenon, "where the rich nations of the globe trotter are buying natural resources in poor countries. The new colonialism in Africa is vast, with Buyers of the rich countries are unable to grow their own food. The Arabs are fleeing back to their arid sands tour of Africa in their attics as they did one and a half millennia ago (in Egypt at the time). The Gulf countries are leading this new investment. Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, between them control 45% of the oil in the world are pulling FARMLAND Egypt, Ethiopia, Cameroon, Zambia, Uganda, but also in Cambodia, Brazil, Kazakhstan, Ukraine and Russia. South Korea aa caught a staggering 960,000 hectares in Sudan, the largest country in Africa, where at least six other rich countries would have obtained possession of land large - and precisely where the locals are among the hungry and the least safe in the world. The Saudis are traded 500,000 acres (no acres) in Tanzania. Companies to the UAE have snapped up 324,000 hectares in Pakistan. The populous countries like China, South Korea and India have acquired pieces of farmland in Africa to produce food for export. India has recently lowered the rates for Ethiopian products which may come in India after the Indian government has lent money to 80 Indian firms to buy 350,000 hectares of farmland in Africa, particularly large areas in Kenya and Ethiopia. And this is the same in Kenya where, in the year 2008, people of African descent were chopping each other outside members, to be shot by their own police forces and Armed and burn innocent men, women and children locked in churches - because of the land! This is Kenya, where The Gallmann, Briatore and Branson and many more own private ranches the size of three cypress trees, where Prince William and his girlfriend spend a little "Hollywood in the bush "once or twice a year - the rest of the time all the celebrities above have their small states treated by their private property" Africans I "- while 75% of African Kenyans have not scratched the earth to plant a tomato!
Kenya has signed an agreement with Qatar, the Arab countries with only 1% of arable land, to acquire 40 000 hectares of land to grow food. One third of Kenya's population faced food shortages and President Kibaki did not respond better to starving Kenyans to oppose the agreement, but to impose a state of emergency and Then turn to appeal for international food aid. Where is the logic there by the ancient bone? If Qatar can produce food on the ground in Kenya feed the Qataris, why not push the Kenya Food Kenya to feed Kenyans? The land is offered in Qatar in the fertile delta of the River Tana, with an abundance of fresh water. Some 150,000 Kenyan agricultural and pastoral families for whom the earth is 60,000 common graze their cattle there. It is not surprising that, backed by opposition activists and environmentalists fear the destruction of a pristine ecosystem of mangroves, savannas and forests, people are now threatening armed resistance. When this happens, the world will only be a report on "African warrior tribes," not a group of people who are struggling to keep their land and the ecosystem rather than having them delivered to farmers to feed their Qatari Arabs.
Next door in Uganda, 400 small farmers with a total of 2,000 people, were driven out (using violence by the Ugandan army) of their land in 2001 to make way for German coffee producer Neumann Kaffee Gruppe. It was against the OECD guidelines for multinational companies. August 24, 2001 the pattern of anxiety, Michael R Neumann, with President Museveni opened the plantation. People who have been driven from their land can since then neither eat properly, or pay school fees for their children. This is another in a long line of violations of fundamental social rights abuses by another African-called leadership against its own citizens. Africans surprised when the world see them as some strange disease? Is polishing the patina of Africa "bad image"?
Mozambique has signed a $ 2 billion to give 10 000 Chinese "settlers" land for 3 million dollars in military aid from Beijing. Right. Take the field for 99 - or 999-year lease and move as you give Mozambicans hungry both reason and the means to kill each other, leaving Mozambique one Chinese province. Food is a weapon is a weapon is a weapon ....
But the list is long. The management of the British investor investment Cru grabbed plots of agricultural productive land in the dirt poor in Malawi. U.S. banker Philippe Heilberg, assisted by a "warlord", has acquired 4,000 square kilometers of land in southern Sudan. Congo - Brazzaville purports to sell 10 million hectares Euroancestral South Africans on the farm. Financial concerns multinationals such as Deutsche Bank, Blackstone Group, Goldman Sachs & Dexion Capital have invested in all of Africa's farmland. The World Bank and the International Finance Corporation are engaged in "The development of agro-business" big time in Africa and other developing countries since the 2008 food crisis, pumping billions Agro-door to ensure food production in Africa for their own country. All of these investors do not want to depend on speculators, they want to eliminate intermediaries and to control themselves. The spokesman investment Vintage, Duncan Parker continues, "Africa has everything you need to be one of the leading food producers worldwide. Its potential workers is large, its fertile soil and lots of sun and water. "
Does the man not speaking the same Africa whose people are starving and dying from diseases that could be avoided by the water mere clean drinking?
And Philippe Heilberg told U.S. media that the political and legal risks, he took to Africa at the time pay the most lucrative, as it is expected that several African states in the coming years to simply collapse. Africans can legitimately Heilberg blame for his arrogance and indifference? Besides, when you listen between the words, there is always a plan in motion behind these expressions gross. Africans may well be the next Palestinian - outcasts in their own land.
And now the food is not the only thing that African land is needed for. Think of the recent EU Desertec looping the Sahara to solar energy to Europe. In the concept are DESERTEC words:
In the coming decades, many global developments will create new challenges for humanity. We will to face problems and obstacles such as climate change, population growth beyond the capacity of the earth, and an increase in demand for energy and water caused by the strive for prosperity and expansion.The DESERTEC Concept provides a way to solve these problems.
The question is to resolve FOR WHOM? Certainly not for Africans. And how to do this work concept?
It works like a coal-fired steam, except that concentrated solar power is used to produce steam, instead of coal. Large mirrors are positioned so that they reflect and concentrate sunlight onto a point as the capture sunlight through a magnifying lens. A major advantage of this technology is part of the sun's heat can be collected in storage tanks of the heat during the day and then run through steam systems at night or during rush hour specifically, depending on demand. With this technology, renewable energy and controlled can be provided depending on the request of the grid.
Yet Africans, fifty years later the road independently and Technology and their existing seat for a price they can afford, can not the position of the mirrors so they reflect and concentrate the sun's rays in abundance in Africa and capture the sunlight through a magnifying lens! The Africans had the eternity of the Sahara - But they just could not get the idea to get some solar energy from this vast desert. No idea Sunny throughout Africa? Yes, they could, if Africans are beginning to think of themselves as valuable as human beings, and join forces to keep what belongs to them. If the Africans could well follow obediently the butcher to slaughter because that is where they will end up - in "native reserves" dying as a people until the few Africans are being left in museums as they were once the main attraction of the circus throughout the West in the 18th to early 20th century.
German companies British and American also purchased land in Tanzania and Ethiopia to develop biofuels. Ethiopia - the synonym for famine - argues that since it's imported oil, biofuels will be out price fluctuations and dependence on oil! What about the impact Environmental - 75% of the land allocated to foreign companies are woody biofuels and forests will be cut! Manufacturers of chopsticks Chinese are delighted.
A Norwegian biofuel company to create "the largest jatropha plantation in the world" by the extensive deforestation tracts of land in northern Ghana. The company was back to Europe darkest when it blatantly cheated an illiterate chief to sign 38,000 hectares with his fingerprint. Jatropha is a plant not-too-demanding that produces oily seeds from which biodiesel can be made.
This rush any news for poor countries' land is the result of the food crisis of 2007-2008, when the price of wheat, rice and other cereals soared across the globe. When countries food producers tariffs to minimize the amount of staple crops that have left their country, the supply has been further strengthened resulting in prices shooting higher. It was a rarity rather than the policy established and proven true traditional supply and demand. Created a situation where rich countries dependent on food imports to their massive brains. They started to put the fundamental principles of world trade (that each country should focus on its best product, and trade) under the microscope. The Gulf States, among others, rich countries, with their unimaginable amount of cash from oil trading suddenly realized that you can not eat cash soaked in oil. We can only bite your a Rolls-Royce. Or feeding your child computer chips. The sheikhs & Associates has seen the cost of food imports has doubled in five years. The future bodes for the worse - both regional and global markets are no longer reliable.
The perfect answer was to own agricultural land. "Control of farmland abroad," writes Paul Vallely, "would not only secure food supplies, it would eliminate the cut taken by the middlemen and reduce the food import bills of more than 20 percent. And the benefits could only increase. "Because fundamental conditions that marked the beginning of the global food crisis remain unchanged and could easily worsen.
According to the UN of the world population will double by 2050. To produce enough food to feed 9 billion people choke the planet. Thus, strategies long term the answer. When the Prime Minister of Japan Taro (importer of food) has asked the G8 leaders in Italy: "The food crisis now just another whim of the market? "he answered his own question:" The evidence suggests not, we are in transition to a new equilibrium, reflecting a new economic reality, climate, population and environment. "
Not that the market is either asleep. The cost land is increasing rapidly, making irresponsible African leaders, but insatiable salivate. And we, Africans, sitting with our hands on our knees bent in waiting for some force of nature to come to our rescue. Many are not even aware that their ancestral land is available for re-colonization because their governments are the big boys who believe they inform their citizens about what is happening is the boys in a subordinate position. These are the guys in this world do not know they are servants of their people.
The food and financial crises combined have made the new agricultural farm land strategic asset. Veteran trader Jim Rogers, in league with his fellow veterans as Lord Jacob Rothschild, said in July 2009: "I am convinced that agricultural land will be one of the best investments of our time. "This really should bode well for Africa because there are land abundant in the continent, and the agricultural sector - the backbone of Africa - is in need of capital and technology. A win-win situation. Except that Africans are auctioning their continent's most sacred possession for nothing and an incredible 99 - or 999-year lease (. according to the head of which deals with salivating There are leaders out there with the colonial era 999-year lease). Who plays in three and a half to thirty-four generations of Africans - left in limbo. Or as specimens in museums of any rich.
Produce enough food to feed 9 billion people in 2050 will overwrite the planet denuding forests and rivers drain and ruin farmland. In Copenhagen, the capital saw that their lackeys known as the world's governments more treated climate change as Santa Claus - a fairy tale. But to the delight of the capital, oil prices continue to rise in direct with fertilizer and tractor fuel - so biofuels to further reduce the land that would be available for food crops. The horrors are ahead because the harvest periods are fat - there will not be enough food for the table even for the rich dirty - unless they can afford € 3 million a day home in space. The market economy will be this time - as always - not for everyone as falsely proclaimed. Land prices jumped 15% to 30% worldwide.
After the financial crisis in mortgage-based derivatives, agricultural land is the new strategic asset. An asset that nobody can make or build and then sell. Once given, he went and no reply or spare parts of Africa.
Marginally seen, it might be good for African countries. In addition to the resources Natural stunning and varied, some of which can not be found anywhere on the planet earth, as already stated, is what Africans have in abundance. All the needs of Africa is crucial to develop its agriculture. A huge proportion of that capital is unearthed on the continent by the handle some wrong-wired to develop African economies NOT AFRICA. Curse Big why Africans did to blame. The rest of the world calls capital flight - as if this huge amount of money just made the decision to take to the air and fly to the West - the terminology our crazy time when people call for their own deaths "collateral damage".
The global financial players that have caused the crisis are the same now roaming in the agricultural landscape and striking pieces of him. These land transactions should provide investment technology and know-how local farmers, reduce dependence on food aid and similar diseases. They should provide the infrastructure that goes beyond the roads outside the tenant farms to the port that the transport 100% of their crops to their own country. Trafficking should allow the construction of schools and health centers for the entire community. They should provide enough taxes to the government for more development - assuming that governments Africans are finally investing in their own country and people instead of castles and numbered accounts abroad. African leaders have alleged a some innate fear of people educated and healthy. Instead of recognizing the greatest potential for their nations they see human resources opponents.
Then there is the problem of monoculture plantation in a culture of food plants on a large scale depends on huge amounts pesticides and fertilizers. It would ruin the sustainability of tropical soils are not suitable for intensive cultivation, and damage the water table Local. Soil erosion will occur and ruin soil fertility over time. The diversity of plants, animals and insects will be radically threatened while the intensive use of agrochemicals to bring water quality conditions. In addition to irrigate plantations of foreign investors take water away from native users. Thus, these grabs are catching the water effects - the most valuable of these offers - instead of grabbing land, because once you own the land that you own the water below.
The chief executive of Nestlé, Peter Brabeck-Letmathe is this way: "take water for agriculture will continue to increase rapidly. In some of the most fertile regions of the world (America, Southern Europe, northern India, northeast of China), the overuse of water, mainly for agriculture, resulted in water tables flowing. Groundwater is withdrawn, not as a buffer during the year, but structurally, mainly because the water is considered as a free good. "
It is not. The average person in the world uses 3000-6000 gallons of water daily, less than a tenth what is used for hygiene or manufacturing. The rest goes to agriculture. Meat consumption has increased and meat requires water ten times more per calorie than plants. The thirsty land products are biofuels. For soybeans per liter of biodiesel takes up 9100 liters of water and up to 4,000 liters to turn corn into ethanol. Brabeck-Letmathe predicted, "Under the present conditions and with the way water is managed, we're running out of water long before we run out of fuel. "India and the U.S. combined produce one third of the world population cereals, but Frank Rijsberman of the International Water Management Institute warns, "we could be facing annual losses equivalent Cereal crop "of India and the USA.
The land grab is now a pandemic. As with natural resources in Africa, there is no transparency and foreign governments and multinational corporations engaged in bribes have a great fear of prosecution poor countries. In their own rich, at least someone can publicly cry foul or show with huge placards in the streets without fear of being shot by police or armed forces.
In Africa, land rights are not only written, they also exist in the custom and practice. It should indeed be (if nothing else) mandatory sharing of benefits such as building schools and health centers. Leases short, or even better contract farming, small farmers would leave in control of their land and contract for investors. On the other hand Investors should never be allowed to export entire crops especially during a food crisis in the host country.
Earth catches up a serious violation of human right to food. Humanity has the most important battle was over food. It is food that is strongest then survives. I therefore appeal to all Africans, Continental and Diaspora, and all the friends and fans in Africa, to join me in this fight by going my website - www.akinyi-princess.de - and the signature in the guestbook with the Once your name, and your words REFERENDUM LANDGRAB valid email address. Also, please spread the word to your friends, families, buddies and friends social networking, chat room and forum knowledge around the globe to join us in the fight. I need at least 25,000 real email "signatures" to allow me to write a petition to the Commissioner of the AU in Addis Ababa demanding that African governments can not not just to "negotiate" deals with land grabbing with foreign governments and multinationals, without prior consultation with their respective citizens as a referendum. The petition is now professionally prepared and will be posted on my website as soon as possible.
About the Author
A graduate journalist - the London Schools of Journalism as well as an economics graduate of the London School of Economics. Been writing as a freelance journalist since 1980, columnist with various dailies and monthly magazines in Africa and Europe. Gives lectures and seminars in various German universities, colleges and high schools on topics ranging from socio-economy in Africa, Business English, African literature and the socio-ethnological conflicts in the traditions of Africans and the West in general. Written and published articles, papers, novels in Engish and German. Her non-fiction book “Darkest Europe and Africa’s Nightmare: A critical Observation of the Neighbour Continents” published in 2008 by a New York publisher. Full CV - www.akinyi-princess.de. More works as yet unpublished and a children’s fantasy/thriller.
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Barefoot Solar Engineers of Ethiopia This short film documents the journey of 34 men and women from Ethiopia who travel to the Barefoot College of Tilonia in India to become "Barefoot" solar engineers. For 6 months, these engineering students work side by side with their India counter-parts, mastering the technology needed to assemble and maintain solar power systems, or build rooftop rainwater harvesting. With the technology de-myst... |
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COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF WIND POWER AND SOLAR POWER FOR ELECTRIFICATION: OF DEK ISLAND ON LAKE TANA; ETHIOPIA $65.87 The need for renewability, modularity and environmental friendliness is drawing the attention of everybody, thinking about the future of our world, to focus on renewable energy sources for electrification purpose. Among these renewable energy resources, solar and wind are becoming more and more popular for electrification of remote areas where central power grids are not economical to extend. This... |