“They told us this would be the last rainy season for us to cultivate our fields; after that, they will level all the houses and take the land,” said Mama Keita, 73, the leader of this village veiled behind dense, thorny scrubland.
<span style="font-style: italic">Organizations like the <span style="font-size: 14pt">United Nations</span> and the <span style="font-size: 14pt">World Bank</span> say the practice, if done equitably, could help feed the growing global population by introducing large-scale commercial farming to places without it.</span>
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Derek</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><span style="font-style: italic">Organizations like the <span style="font-size: 14pt">United Nations</span> and the <span style="font-size: 14pt">World Bank</span> say the practice, if done equitably, could help feed the growing global population by introducing large-scale commercial farming to places without it.</span>
I never have trusted those bastards... </div></div>
Another scramble for Africa? He is a day late and a dollar short...btw
<span style="font-style: italic"><span style="font-size: 20pt">..MAN TO MAN IS SO UNJUST, THAT YOU DON'T KNOW WHO TO TRUST</span>
<span style="font-style: italic">Their humble fields, tilled from one generation to the next, were now controlled by Libya’s leader, Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, and the farmers would all have to leave.</span>
I don't believe Qaddafi took their land.
Qaddafi has defended Africa and helped create the African Union. So naturally, these bastards want Qaddafi to look bad in the eyes of Africans.
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Derek</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><span style="font-style: italic">Their humble fields, tilled from one generation to the next, were now controlled by Libya’s leader, Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, and the farmers would all have to leave.</span>
I don't believe Qaddafi took their land. </div></div>
Even when you see it in print and the article explains what exactly is happening?
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Faithfull</div><div class="ubbcode-body">
Another scramble for Africa? He is a day late and a dollar short...btw </div></div>
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Tuff Gong</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Derek</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><span style="font-style: italic">Their humble fields, tilled from one generation to the next, were now controlled by Libya’s leader, Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, and the farmers would all have to leave.</span>
I don't believe Qaddafi took their land. </div></div>
Even when you see it in print and the article explains what exactly is happening?
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Derek</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><span style="font-style: italic">Organizations like the <span style="font-size: 14pt">United Nations</span> and the <span style="font-size: 14pt">World Bank</span> say the practice, if done equitably, could help feed the growing global population by introducing large-scale commercial farming to places without it.</span>
I never have trusted those bastards... </div></div>
....but you trusted Qaddafi?
I am sure the buyers/leasers of these lands means good Libya and other countries needs food and these large tract of largely undeveloped, relatively cheap lands presents a golden opportunity.
The other side of the coin is Africans were destroyed by Cash Crop now another rounds of destruction of lives is set to take place with these huge farms that will produce one or too crops mainly for export.
This crazy, no matter the face of the buyer/lessee!
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Derek</div><div class="ubbcode-body">[]
Well if it's in print it must be true. </div></div>
I never made any such statement....what is in print can at least be subject to verification!
Believe half of what you read and none of what you hear but do not write off anything or pass a judgment without testing the issue based on known facts.
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Tuff Gong</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Derek</div><div class="ubbcode-body">[]
Well if it's in print it must be true. </div></div>
I never made any such statement....what is in print can at least be subject to verification!
Believe half of what you read and none of what you hear but do not write off anything or pass a judgment <span style="font-weight: bold">without testing the issue based on known facts</span>. </div></div>
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Tuff Gong</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Faithfull</div><div class="ubbcode-body">
Another scramble for Africa? He is a day late and a dollar short...btw </div></div>
No.... there is still gold in dem fields! </div></div>
He is behind the times because another scramble was always afoot...where has he bin?
If you believe in and support free market economies I.e. capitalism, then why are you complaining when someone is doing what is perfectly legal and accepted, investing to make money.
What difference does it make if a few hundred or a few tens of thousand poor farmers get screwed? There are billions of poor in the world dying, immiserated, displaced, homeless, illiterate because of this same economic set up.
You might think about the underlying disease rather than an unpleasant symptom.
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