Ethiopia (TPLF) leases huge tracts of farmland to foreign companies
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The Raping of Ethiopia: The new way of Bio-Colonialism
Land is finite. There is so much of it and that is it. So, food-importing countries with scarce arable land but lots of cash, mainly in Asia and the Middle East, are increasingly looking overseas to secure food supplies after the prices of staple foods rocketed last year. They are scouring Africa as a kind of 3rd wave of outsourcing, i.e. agriculture outsourcing. Critics are rightly crying that such schemes hark back to colonial-era “plantation agriculture” where rich outsiders force subsistence farmers off fertile land to grow export crops.
Jacques Diouf, the head of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, has reportedly called the land deals a type of “neo-colonialism”. Bless his heart! But, some argue including the learned Prime Minister of Ethiopia that the investments have the potential to increase local food availability and create badly needed jobs. May be if a government of the people, by the people, for the people negotiated such give-away contracts. Otherwise such deals prove disastrous. Example: Madagascar´s deal with South Korean firm Daewoo.
There is even a fundamental human right issue in play here. Does the present generation (Meles and co) even have the legal right to mortgage the peoples´ land for 50+ years? How could Meles know the legitimate owners of the land (namely the future generation of Ethiopians) may not need the land say 20 years from now? More…
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February 26th, 2010 at 9:47 am
We never forgive Tigray people for the agony we suffered under them in 21st Century. We will revenge them, no matter how they underestimate us. They will never wipe us even if they do so by more than 10% (we are still majority). Please those who are concerned read what OAU and UN stand for even during dark age of colonilism and what TPLF/Tigre are doing to voiceless people of Oromo in this century. http://gadaa.com/oduu/?p=2568