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Pambazuka - Profits before people: The great African liquidation sale
"it was all summed up clearly for me by members of COPAGEN, a coalition of African farmer associations, scientists, civil society groups and activists who work to protect Africa’s genetic heritage, farmer rights, and their sovereignty over their land, seeds and food. All these knowledgeable people have shown me that the answer is quite straightforward: many of those imported mistakes, disguised as solutions for Africa, are very, very profitable. At least for those who design and make them."
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it was all summed up clearly for me by members of COPAGEN, a coalition of African farmer associations, scientists, civil society groups and activists who work to protect Africa’s genetic heritage, farmer rights, and their sovereignty over their land, seeds and food. All these knowledgeable people have shown me that the answer is quite straightforward: many of those imported mistakes, disguised as solutions for Africa, are very, very profitable. At least for those who design and make them.
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These monetarist schemes have helped to make Africa poorer and even more dependent on foreign donors and capital, and thus more vulnerable to still more of the big plans, so that now, even as Africans struggle to confront the perfect storm of the global food crisis, financial crisis and climate change – all of which are the offspring of the unfettered free-market financial system – the same big planners are at it again with more sweeping solutions (profitable ones) for the problems they themselves caused.
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Greenspan recommends the banks be broken up ( - Bloomberg.com
- The major question remaining, then, seems to be how such breaking apart occurs. It is in the interests of the big financial institutions to retain their power. - pickinjava on 2009-10-18
Mwalimu Nyerere’s ideas on land
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Vandana Shiva, who dismisses the Western conception of property which respects only capital investment and not the fact that conception of non-western indigenous communities and cultures recognise that investment can also be of labour and nurturance“ (Shiva 2001: 44). Although Nyerere held this view, in practice his government acted to the contrary. Like the colonial state before him, more and more land, especially of the pastoralist communities was alienated.
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his views are in many ways similar to those of Karl Polanyi on what he calls fictitious commodities.
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FINANCE: IMF Rebuts Critical Report on Lending - IPS ipsnews.net
The IMF responded to the report by the Washington-based Centre for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) with a lengthy rebuttal asserting that it "reaches seriously misleading conclusions about the pro-cyclicality of policies in IMF-supported programs, relying on faulty analysis and often inaccurate information."
Resist/Submit: Biofuels, corporate agriculture and the predicted crisis of land and food
"It is wrong to burn the food of the poor to drive the cars of the rich."
the Devil and Development
International security (Africom, Trans-Saharan Counterterrorism Partnership) blog.
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