Tip:
Highlight text to annotate it
X
Hungry and angry,
Another food riot breaks out in the streets... - The world food crisis is growing.
For the millions of people around the world struggling to buy the most basic of food stuffs
these are desperate times.
Rich countries are racing to buy and lease agricultural land abroad,
and secure their food supplies for the future.
Africa, know for its fertile land and low priced agricultural real estate,
has become the target of wealthy investors.
Dear Listeners, this is Radio Jamakan, greetings to you all.
It's no longer a rumour that in this region
we are waiting for the Sosumar sugar cane project.
1,000 square kilometres at a time
they are taking your land and selling it off.
You can take everything from a farmer, but not his land.
Because the land is the only thing he has.
The question is who own Africa, who own the land?
Is it the ordinary farmers or is it their governments?
Peasants don't own their land. They date from a time before there was land ownership.
So they are vulnerable to any force of the state or a company that come here
and literally pull the resources out from under their feet.
Any scheme for development
that doesn't ask the subjects of development what they want,
how they want to live, is not development.
You are bringing the small farmer into the value chain.
We are actually creating a new class of commercial farmers.
Our harvests haven't improved in 18 years.
That's why we agreed to stop growing millet and do something new.
Our ancestors and our parents farmed these fields
and we never asked anybody for help or food.
Even if they give us lots of money for our land, it will run out.
But the land never runs out.