Africa: Land grab or development? (NHK)
- NHK
- 08 January 2010
Documentary for Japan Broadcasting Corporation, focusing on Tanzania and Ethiopia
Documentary for Japan Broadcasting Corporation, focusing on Tanzania and Ethiopia
Programme aired on NHK World presenting a documentary by Kohei Tsuji filmed in Ethiopia and Tanzania - in Japanese only - 35 minutes
Si impadroniscono delle risorse naturali sempre più scarse attraverso la guerra delle armi o il danaro. La scomparsa delle popolazioni in via di sviluppo a loro non importa.
Der Spiegel video on Dominion Farms in Kenya and a Chinese farm project in Tanzania. Auf Deutsch.
That Korea is no longer "importing" this food that is being grown overseas implies that this land is effectively Korean. This amounts to agricultural imperialism.
South Korea, through the Korean Economic Development Fund, has extended a $50 million (about Sh65 billion) loan to the Rufiji Basin Development Authority (Rubada). About 100,000 hectares of land have been set aside for modern rice farming under the project.
Los capitalistas conquistan los recursos de la naturaleza mundial mediante la guerra o la compra.
The Government has ordered 2000 squatters out of land meant for large-scale paddy farming in Kilombero district, Morogoro region.
An Afro-Arab agriculture conference on farm investment, which was to take place in Zanzibar, has been cancelled due to the Tanzanian governmnt's 11th hour refusal to host it.
The government of Tanzania has refuted media reports indicating that it has leased out 1000 square kilometres of farmland to South Koreans.
The Korea Rural Community Corporation, under the Agriculture Ministry, said it is also in talks with other resource-rich countries about deals in exchange for support for the construction of agricultural infrastructure or farms. Among the negotiating partners mentioned were Indonesia, Laos, Myanmar, Senegal and Mongolia.
"This land [100,000 ha] is not meant to be leased to the Koreans as such, but a mechanism will be worked out on how the land must be processed," said a spokesperson for Tanzania's prime minister.