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jodevizes
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The nasty little secret that is stealing the earth.
October 17, 2009 - 10:14 AM
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I have to thank French TV for this story as the BBC seems to be asleep over this. Many different countries like Qatar, are renting huge swathes of Africa, India and South America to use as their personal allotments to grow food. China has by far the largest area but there others. This may seem like a great idea, well it would be if the people that lived there could benefit. Sadly, the money is paid to the government who then go off and clear all the people off the land to allow cultivation. Some locals may get hired as labourers but that is the extent of the bounty.
I am not sure what can be done to stop this practice but I think more light should be brought to bear on this subject.
If anybody knows any more, please post it here.
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Re: The nasty little secret that is stealing the earth.
October 18, 2009 - 03:48 PM
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I do agree with you on this subject and thanks for bringing it on this forum.
As a young african, i sometimes wonder what type of leaders we have in the African continent.
Infact feel that majority of the african countries should stop celebrating their independence because i cannot see any forms of such in majority of the African countries.
We are still been ruled by western powers through the inability of our so-called leaders who lack respect for their citizens. each an everyone of them is fighting to be in the good books of western powers thereby subjecting their entire sovereignty to them for their own selfish interests.
many of the citizens remain the slaves in these so-called developmental project. The questions we should be asking ourselves are how long will the masses continue suffering just for the sake of few selfish leaders? what is the freedom that we celebrate every year while majority of the citizens are still slaves in their countries?
What is the security that they are talking about when the earth is unprotected for generations yet unborn?
when are we going to start looking at ourselves beyond the skins and the percentages of wealth we own?
Above it all, when are these so-called farms going to address global hunger?
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Re: The nasty little secret that is stealing the earth.
October 19, 2009 - 07:17 PM
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Aren't big countries ashamed to go to Africa, suggest a "project" - pay a large sum of money to the leaders and do (or don't) a development "project" when in reality they're stealing local natural resources??? 
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