How Food and Water are Driving a 21st Century African Land Grab
This article from the guardian examines the land grabs that are currently occurring in Africa and it portrays once again the economic view that pervades the thinking of large multinational corporations. Although touted as a way to put money and jobs into the local communities. this is not the way the locals see it “This is the new 21st century colonisation. The Saudis are enjoying the rice harvest, while the Oromos (local area affected by land grabs) are dying from man made famine as we speak”. The purchase of this land for the purpose of ‘development’ of this land contributes to the dislocation of people as well as removing sustenance farming by privatising and commodifying land that was previously held communally by local groups throughout Africa. What is needed is regulation to ensure environmental sustainability which is the opposite of what is occurring.
