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The backlash begins against the world
landgrab
Telegraph, UK, Sept 13, 2010
Last week's long-delayed report by the World Bank
suggests that purchases in developing countries rose to 45m
hectares in 2009, a ten-fold jump from levels of the last
decade. Two thirds have been in Africa, where institutions offer
weak defence.
As is by now well-known, sovereign wealth funds from the
Mid-East, as well as state-entities from China, the Pacific Rim,
and even India are trying to lock up chunks of the world's
future food supply. Western agribusiness is trying to beat them
to it. Western funds - many listed on London's AIM exchange -
are in turn trying to beat them. The NGO GRAIN, and
farmlandgrab.com, have both documented the stampede in detail.
Hedge funds that struck rich 'shorting' US sub-prime have
rotated into the next great play of our era: 'long’ soil.
"Productive agricultural land with water on site, will be very
valuable in the future. And I've put a good amount of money into
that," said Michael Burry, star of 'The Big Short'. .....More
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Generosity or a guilty conscience?
BBC, Sept 13, Ghanadot - President Jacob Zuma's son,
Duduzane, has just revealed that he plans to donate a
fortune...All of the money comes from a controversial
mining deal that has outraged many here and led one
union leader to describe South Africa as "heading in the
direction of a full-blown predator state, in which a
powerful, corrupt and demagogic elite of political
hyenas increasingly controls the state as a vehicle for
accumulation". .....More
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How did Sudan implode so
catastrophically?
The WSJ, Sept 12, Ghanadot - Peace
has eluded Sudan since its inception in 1956. Sudan was
technically the first sub-Saharan African country to
gain independence from a colonial power,......More |
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The backlash begins against the world
landgrab
Telegraph, UK, Sept 13, Ghanadot - Last week's long-delayed report by the World Bank
suggests that purchases in developing countries rose to 45m
hectares in 2009, a ten-fold jump from levels of the last
decade. Two thirds have been in Africa, where institutions offer
weak defence. ..More
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Dr. Kwabena Adjei directs police to
arrest NDC
JoyFM, Sept 13,
Ghanadot - What he told them was that he made that
statement on behalf of the functional executive committee of
the party… …and so the statement was not his personal
statement ...and so if they want to speak with him, on
Tuesday they will be having their functional executive
committee meeting, the party will be present
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