Bono - Well Paid Spokesman for the Elitists... https://youtube/watch?v=5CvlQLcyawg#t=159 See this quote by Pan-Africanist International on · 6 August 2012: We are all Africans, and many of us know what poverty, hunger, and even famine is, so we are not going to preach to the choir. What we are interested in are the solutions. This is what drew our attention to the ONE petition because there are very serious problems associated with the “solutions” they have been busy proposing to anyone who would listen to them. The solution for ONE is that, “In Africa, the campaign calls upon African leaders, donors, governments, and the private sector, to focus on 23 low income African countries that have tested, costed and affordable smart agriculture and nutrition plans. Investing in these plans will help smallholder farmers produce more food, generate bigger incomes and pull themselves out of poverty. If funded, these country investment plans could save 31 million Africans from extreme poverty and 12 million children from malnourishment.” They list 23 African low-income countries, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea Bissau, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Nepal, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, and Zambia, as having “country investment plans”. According to President Obama at the launching of the “New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition”, he attributed the country plans to Africans themselves: “Today, I can announce a new global effort we’re calling a New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition. And to get the job done we’re bringing together all the key players around a shared commitment. Let me describe it. Governments, like those in Africa, that are committed to agricultural development and food security, they agree to take the lead — building on their own plans by making tough reforms and attracting investment. Donor countries — including G8 members and international organizations — agree to more closely align our assistance with these country plans. And the private sector — from large multinationals to small African cooperatives, your NGOs and civil society groups — agree to make concrete and continuing commitments as well, so that there is an alignment between all these sectors.” We would have left the symposium with the impression that this was indeed an “African initiative”, had the closing remarks of US Secretary of State, Ms Hilary Clinton, not given the game away. From her it becomes clear that the US had certain specific issues that needed to be present in those “plans”. She admitted that the US embassies in the respective countries “offered some assistance in drawing up the country plans”. WATCH/LISTEN to her here: Secretary Clinton Global Food Safety | Video | C-SPAN.org c-span.org/video/… Thus it does not appear to be a “wholly African initiative” as President Obama would have us believe. In any case, before any one sells us the idea that any African country was going to come out with a plan that recognizes and supports “the acceptance of different forms of agricultural production, including organic, conventional, and biotechnology,” we might have to explain why the G8 “New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition” even became necessary in the first place. - Pan-Africanist International https://facebook/PanAfricanistInternational/photos/pb.176440449067636.-2207520000.1421741700./438147386230273/?type=3&theater
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