The Same Financial Firms Responsible For Our Economic Crisis Are Driving Us Toward a Global Food Dis

[Donnachaidh]

http://www.alternet.org/food/151250/the_same_financial_firms_responsible_for_our_economic_crisis_are_driving_us_toward_a_global_food_disaster_/

Investors are involved in massive land grabs in Africa that may cause destabilization of food prices, mass displacement and environmental damage.


US and EU investors -- including US universities, pension funds and investment firms -- are involved in unprecedented land grabs currently taking place in Africa, according to a series of investigative reports released on Wednesday by the Oakland Institute.

The Oakland Institute spent over a year working undercover to gather information on land deals in Ethiopia, Mali, Sierra Leone, Mozambique, Tanzania and South Sudan.

The reports show how land deals have a number of effects, including the destabilization of food prices, mass displacement and environmental damage.

More at the link --

[ixion]

1. I get mocked for using the phrase "Neo-Feudal Age" a great deal, but then I see stories like this

and I know that I'm on the mark.


Now that the banks own most of the homes, they need to move on to new turf. The lower 99% of the people on this planet are being herded en masse towards indentured servitude.

[patrice]

2. K&R