America's Military Assists Elite & Corporatist Land Grabs in Africa

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CGI's Billsbest: America's Military Assists Elite & Corporatist Land Grabs in Africa

Posted By: Susoni
Date: Wednesday, 25-Apr-2012 13:47:55

America's Military Assists Elite & Corporatist Land Grabs in Africa By Konye Obaji Ori While Africa may have celebrated the demise of colonialism, it seems the continent is sliding back to those days, as investors continue to push murky land deals. The majority of Africa's poor still depend on substinence farming/Photo/Reuters The majority of Africa's poor still depend on subsistence farming/Photo/Reuters In 1884, European and American politicians, at a meeting in Berlin, gathered to divide the African land amongst themselves and plan the future exploitation of the continent. In the second half of the 19th century, after more than four centuries of contact, the European powers finally laid claim to nearly all of Africa. The land grab of Africa is not over. With world food security under threat, some governments have promoted land acquisitions abroad as a way to secure affordable food for their people, and Africa, again, presents a solution. American speculators and academic capitalists began grabbing African lands in 2008. The continent has lost a significant percentage of its land over the last few years, a resource that is central to the livelihoods of millions of its people. According to researchers at the California-based Oakland Institute, Harvard and other major American universities have been working through British hedge funds and European financial speculators to buy vast areas of African farmland in deals, some of which have already forced thousands of people off their land... Read more>> http://chasvoice.blogspot.com/2012/04/americas-military-assists-elite.html