Comments on: The War on Africa’s Family Farmers

By: Øyvind Holmstad

Øyvind Holmstad — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 05:48:18 +0000

Frederic Mousseau og Granate Sosnoff (red.): Understanding Land Investment Deals in Africa. Country Report: Ethiopia. The Oakland Institute 2011.

Frederic Mousseau og Granate Sosnoff (red.): Understanding Land Investment Deals in Africa. Country Report: Mali. The Oakland Institute 2011.

Frderic Mousseau og Granate Sosnoff (red.): Understanding Land Investment Deals in Africa. Country Report: Sierra Leone. The Oakland Institute 2011.

All 3 reports can be downloaded from here: http://media.oaklandinstitute.org/special-investigation-understanding-land-investment-deals-africa

By: C. C.

C. C. — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 17:33:13 +0000

I think it important for you all to think about this: Where do your clothes come from? Unless your naked, you are all contributing this system of exploitation.

Nothing is perfect, not Capitalism, not Socialism. And Utopia is a dream. The only reason we are paying less than $10 a gallon at the pump is because of enormous subsidies.

Joan, I’m sick of hearing complaints. Please close your mouth, put down your pen, and don’t open your mouth or share anything more with the world until you have concrete and real-world solutions to the problems you describe above. Your article really hasn’t contributed anything that hasn’t been said before. Stop regurgitating and become an architect for a new social and economic formation.

By: Øyvind Holmstad

Øyvind Holmstad — Sun, 24 Apr 2011 20:18:08 +0000

“All over the world, Governments take money from the World Bank and use it to build giant high-rises in which to put their poor. The model is a dismal failure. Unfortunately, the ideology of geometrical efficiency that ignores collateral dehumanization leads to catastrophic social collapse.” – Twelve Lectures on Architecture, by Nikos A. Salingaros, page 73: http://www.bod.de/index.php?id=296&objk_id=354912

It seems to me that the World Bank has a mania in promoting large scale, inhuman and unsustainable systems!

Q: How can systems based on an unnatural scale distribution survive?

A: With massive financial capital, huge ependitures of energy, and sheer force of will.

Page 72 the same book.

By: barry hayes

barry hayes — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 22:22:17 +0000

The system of biomineral agriculture I’ve developed here is suited to farmer production of fertilizer which is non-chemical and increases water use efficiency with time, however it has proved almost impossible to introduce it to Africa despite attempts through World Vision and other organisations. The Gates and Rockefeller preoccupation with “global” markets will never address African needs.

By: Øyvind Holmstad

Øyvind Holmstad — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 18:06:13 +0000

It’s time to outlaw land grabbing, not to make it “responsible”! : http://www.energybulletin.net/stories/2011-04-21/its-time-outlaw-land-grabbing-not-make-it-responsible

By: Zainil Zainuddin

Zainil Zainuddin — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 05:56:24 +0000

Thank you for the article. Food in/security in both developed and developing nations is of great interest to me.

By: Arian I.

Arian I. — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 04:16:21 +0000

It appears that the spirit behind the Age of Exploration (also known by some as the “Age of Exploitation) is still alive and well. The conquistadores are still operating, just under different charters.