Land Grabs to Exacerbate Africa's Water Woes

Foreign-backed agriculture projects to grow food and biofuels for export may result in millions of people losing access to water sources that they rely on for their livelihoods, a report warns.

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  • larry2nuts
    Jun 13 2012, 14:58

    This scramble for cheap land would not be happening if it was not for the corrupt leaders that give away the public resources as if it were their personal property. The land in Africa should only be leased to foreigners at a fair price and not a discounted price. Also, it should be public knowledge the exact amount paid to the public coffers for that land.

  • ras sideeq
    Jun 14 2012, 05:41

    I HAVE SPME PICTURES WITH SOME OF THE ORIGINAL SUAUDI SHEIKS THEY WERE MOSTLY BLACK. WHEN LAWRENCE OF ARABIA HAD HIS ADVENTURE IN ARABIA AGAIN THE PEOLE WERE MIOST LY OF BLACK EXTRACT. I HAVE PICTURES OF THE US PRESIDENT RSOEVELT WITH BLACK SAUDI KINGS. ITS ASHAME THAY FORGET THEIR BLACK ROOTS . MANY ARABS FORGET THAT THE ORIGINAL ARBS WERE INDEED BLACK S WAS THE THE SO CALLED MID EAST. IT IS TRULY TIME THAT WE ESTABLISH ATRUE AND DEFINITIVE LINK WITH ALL AFRICA. WE HAD THIS LINK UP UNITL THE 15TH CENTURY WHEN THEY CAM E INTOAFRICA FROM EUROPE TO COLONISE. WEST AFRICAN KINGS WERE THE BIGGEST CONTRIBUTORS OF GOLD TO MECCA AND SAUDI ARABI, WHEN THE GOLD WAS BROUGHT TO MECCA THE WHOLE SO CALLED MID EAST AND OTHER PARTS OF THE WORLD WOULD LOSE ITS VALUE OF MONEY AS MECCA WOULD BE AWASH WITH GOLD.THIS WAS WHY EUROPE SOUGHT OUT AFRICA,NAMED GHANA THE GOLD COAST. AFRICA TODAY IS RICH WITH PLENTY OF WATER. THIS WHAT I SAY WHEN I SPEAK ABOUT UPLIFTMENT OF COUNTRIES. WHERE JOYCE BANDS COULD HAVE USHERED A NEA STAGE OF INDEPENDENT PRIDE FILLED UPLIFTMENT. SHE OPTED FOR A MORE SUBSERVIENT ROLE AS BEGGAR AND MAINTAINER OF THE STATUS QUO. AFRICAN PRINCIPLE AND PRIDE MUST BE ALLOWED TO SHINE. IF AFRICANS DO NOT HOLD THEMSELVES DEAR THEN NO ELSE WILL. IT SHOULD BE AN HONOUR FOR COUNTRIES ROUND THE WORLD TO DEAL WITH AFRICAN PEOPLE THEY ARE THE FOUNDATION OF THIS EARTH WE LIVE ON. THE BLACK MANTHRUOUT ALL AGES HAS BEEN THE SAVIOUR OF THSI PALNET. I HAVERED THE BOOKS THE INFORMATION THAT THE ESTEEMED SOUTH AFRICAN ARCCHAEOLOGIST HAS WRITTEN ABOUT AFRICA AND HUMANITY. YOU NEED ALSO TO READ BETWEEN THE LINES THOUGH HE WOULD HAVE HA DTO HAVE GIVEN YOU SOME OF THE TRUTH YOU MUST FIND THE RST. THE TRUTH IS EASY TO FIND WHEN YOU REALISE THAT YES WE HAD WRITTEN TEXT THAT IS PREDATED WE ALSO HAD CIVILIZATIONS IN ALL AFRICA WITH BUILT UP SOCIETIES. WE ALSO READ THE BIBLE AND RECOGNISE IF WE ARE FOR POSTERITY ONWE MILLION YEARSOLD OR TO MAKE THEM SEE SENSE 500,000 YERAS OLD WHAT ARE THEY SAYING WE JUST SAT AND HUNTED DEER FOR 455,000YEARS THAT IS PLAIN UNADULTERATED RUBBISH AND FOOLISHNESS. OUR EMPIRES ARE SO EXTENSIVE IT IS AN UNDENIABLE FACT EXCEPT FOR RACIST AND THOSE WHO LIVED OFF THE FALSE EDUCATION THAT WAS TAUGHT TO THE WORLD. IF YOU SAY SOEMTHING LONGH ENOUGH AND CONSISTENTLY ENOUGH PEOPLE WILL BELIVE THIS HAS BEEN PART OF THE PSYCOLOGU OF WHITES USING THE STRENGTRHS OF THE BLACK MAN TO DEFAET HIM. WE PRIDED OUR SELVES ON MEMORISATION THIS ALONG WITH THE WRITTEN MEORISATION WAS PRACTISED BY ADFAAM WHO WAS THE FIRST TEACHER HE TAUGHT ALL THE PEOPLE WITH THE USE OF MEORISATION. MATHEMATICS HAS BEEN ESSENTIAL TO AFRICANS FOR THOUSAND SIF NOT MILLIONS OF YEARS. WE KNOW PEOPLE CAN COUINT EBCAUSE THEY TOOK CVENCUS AND THEY HAD TROPPS THEY USED MATHEMATICS TO ENABLE THEM TO FUNCTION AS KINGS AND LEADERS. WHAT WE HAVE BEEN LED TO BELIEVE ARE ERRONEOUS INFORMATION DISINFORMATIONAND NOMINFORMATION BECAUSE THEY KNEW NOT THEY STILL DO NOT KNOW. WHY THEY HAVE BEEN BLINDED BY RACISM. TODAY WE MUST ASSERT ORU RIGHT TO BE AT THE HEAD OF THE TABLE WE MUST OCCUPY THIS POSITION THRU STRENGTTH OF CHARACTERBY MERIT. WE MUST NOT ALLOW OUR SELVES TO BECOME CONSUDEMD BY THE CORRUPTION OF THE THIIVES WHO HAS LED AFRICA UPTHIS PATH OF UNTRUTH AND LIES. "INIQUITY ORRUPTIUON IS THE DOWNFALL OF ALL NATIONS" THE IDEA IS TO SHARE THE WEALTH ALLOW FOR EVRYONE TO SIT EQUALY IN ASOCIETY THAT DOES NOT PROMOTE BIG YOUS AND LITTLE I, IT IS PROFOUND FOR US TO HAVE BIG RICH INSTITUTIONS THAT THE PEOPLE CAN SHARE IN BECAUSE IT WOULD BE THE PRIDE OF THE PEOPLE THEIR ACCOMPLISHMENST. WHAT THE WEST HAS DONE FOR AFRICA THEY HAVE BROUGHT IN THE ME SYNDROME ITS ALL ABOUT THE INDIDVIDUAL AFRICA HAS SURVIVED WITH THE US CONCEPT ITS ALL ABOUT THE FAMILY THE VIULLAGE THE TH TOWN THE NATION THIS WAS WHAT KEPT THE PRISON SYSTEM FAR FROM AFRICA ALLOWING US TO MAINTAIN PEACE AND SECURITY. THE WESTERN WAY IS RIDDLED WITH FALWS AND DISSILLUSIONMENT. WE MUST SUCCEED IN TRULY BRINGING EQUALITY WEALTH DISTRIBUTION. CALL IT WHAT THEY LIKE WE LTHE AFRICAN HAS BUILT EVERYSINGLE CIVILIZATION ON THESE PRINCIPLES. THIS WAS WHY WE HAD BIG PROJECTS LIKE THE GREAT TEMPLES THESE WERE PLACES THAT WERE BUILT IN HONOUR OF THE PEOPLE. JUST FOOD FOR THOUGHT , DO YOU THINK THAT ONE HUNDRED MILLION AFRICANS WER KILLED DURING TRANSATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE, DO YOU THINK ALL THESE PEOPLE WERE IN THE BUSH?? HIGHLY UNLIKELY THEYDESTROYED CITIES RAIDED CITIED STEAALING AND RAIDING WITH IMPUNITY. WHEN THE PROTUGESE ALEGEDLY WENT TO CENTARL AFRICA FOR TRADE THEY SPOKE OF BOULEVARDS WIDER THAN ANY THEYU SAW IN EUROPE A COURT YARD WHERE IN THE KINGS PALACE HE SAT ON A GOLDEN THRONE EVRYONE WEARING GOLD AND THE GREAT ORGANISATION OF THE PEOPLE. DO NTO SUBJECT YORUSELVES TO ANY OTHER THAN ATTAINING KNWOLEDGE OS SELF AND THE THINGS THAT YOU NEED TO MAKE THE WORLD YOU SEEL AVAILABLE TO EVERYSINGLE CITISEN IN AFRICA. DEVELOPING NATION BY NATION. PARTNERSHIPS NOT ONE SIDED CONTRACTS WITH YOU AS THE BUFFON OR ASS. WHY DO YOU HAVE TO BE IN DEBT PEOPLE SHOULD BE INDEBETD TO YOU"