DID YOU KNOW ? GOVERNMENTS ARE SELLING OFF AFRICAN LAND TO FOREIGNERS - SCARY !! There is more arable land in Africa than there is anywhere else on earth right now. This is one of the reasons that foreign governments and companies are trying to snatch up land in Africa – to grow food (mostly) for their own populations. Human Rights Watch says it has evidence that some 70,000 indigenous people in the western Gambella region (in Ethiopia) were relocated against their will to new villages that “lack adequate food, farmland, healthcare and educational facilities”. Some Land Grab Facts In 2010 up to 123.5 million acres of African land — DOUBLE THE SIZE OF BRITAIN — have been snapped up or is being negotiated by governments or wealthy investors. Ethiopia alone has approved 815 foreign-financed agricultural projects since 2007 Asian and Middle East companies had bought up 560 million acres of farmland in developing countries, often at bargain prices, with some reportedly less than $1 a hectare. Oxfam estimated Ethiopia now supports the export of fruit and vegetables worth $60 million annually, as well as flowers worth $160 million per year. Meanwhile, most of the indigenous population receives foreign food aid. Rich Arab states like Saudi Arabia have bought up huge tracts of land across Africa in recent years in a bid to combat global food shortages, water scarcity and desertification and to feed their swelling populations. When they first came they told us an investor was coming and we would develop the land alongside one another. They didnt say the land would be taken away from us entirely. ~ Farmer Gemechu Garbaba quote Now, no land, no farm, no food. Some Foreign Countries, Firms and Individuals Involved in Land Grab in Africa Some Land Grab Countries - Congo - Ethiopia - Kenya - Mali - Mozambique - Sierra Leone - South Sudan - Tanzania Some Foreign Countries, Firms and Individuals Involved in Land Grab in Africa - Goldman Sachs - JP Morgan - London-based Emergent that works to attract speculators, and various universities - Harvard - Spellman - Vanderbilt. - Kinyeti Development LLC - Howard Eugene Douglas, a former United States Ambassador at Large and Coordinator for Refugee Affairs. - Bruce Rastetter. - Petrotech-ffn USA - Swedish and German firms have interests in the production of biofuels in Tanzanian - Addax Bioenergy from Switzerland - Quifel International Holdings (QIH) from Portugal are major investors in Sierra Leone - UK based Crad-1 (CAPARO Renewable Agriculture Developments Ltd.), associated with the Tony Blair Africa by Emeka Akaezuwa Dr. Emeka Akaezuwa is an entrepreneur, inventor, technologist and educator. He graduated with a Ph.D in Information Systems and Structures from Rutgers University, New Jersey. Dr. Akaezuwa is a founding Trustee of the Global Literacy Project - Global Literacy Project, a non-profit group dedicated to bringing literacy to underprivileged regions of the world.
Posted on: Sun, 20 Oct 2013 00:17:29 +0000
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