Words of Comfort had IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn for the finance ministers and officials from the Tanzanian port town in Africa no choice: "Even though it's taken until the crisis in Africa: it is, and its consequences will be heavy." Strauss-Kahn said his warning at the summit of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), which began on Tuesday in Dar es Salaam. "Africa is the upturn and millions are impoverished again," said the IMF chief. Even the previously feared halving of the African economic growth to 3 per cent was hardly hold, said Strauss-Kahn.
feel richer nations especially Africa, the crisis for months. Hands Wrestling governments seek new sources of revenue - and have one of the last coveted resources found on them is still for sale: land. Because mining and Oil prices have fallen, investors and tourists and fail to transfer African immigrants less money from abroad to their home, which offers mainly from Asia and Arabia seem more attractive. In a few weeks, the Saudi Group Hadco will enter in his fields in Sudan, the first harvest. Vegetables, wheat and fodder in 10,000 hectares of land will help to meet the increasing demand for food for years in Saudi Arabia. For the country to the fertile banks of the Nile Hadco has unconfirmed information indicates $ 95 million dollar lease payment to the government in Khartoum - and more money will follow. Sudan's government has said the Gulf states already 900,000 hectares of the best farmland agreed to a 99-year lease. Officially, this is confirmed in Khartoum, however no one. For the sale of agricultural land to foreign investors is among the citizens, almost everywhere in Africa, mainly small farmers, not particularly popular. The highest of the Korean conglomerate Daewoo will also, who wants to grow feed corn in Madagascar and oil palms. 1.3 million hectares, the government has provided the impoverished island nation for it. In Kenya's Tana River Delta to 40,000 hectares of land will be leased to the Gulf state of Qatar - the cultivation of fruits and vegetables. A quarter of savings expected over the world price, the governments that extend almost to the leases its territory. Of "neo-colonialism" speak for critics as the British environmentalist George Monbiot. "Before, the rich nations gunboats and glass beads are used, today there are lawyers and checkbooks," says Monbiot. "The West wants to escape with all the force of the impending food crisis, even if that means that people are starving somewhere else."
But these comments do not share all. The food expert of the UN Environment Programme, Christian Nellemann, stresses lead it no other way to manage the available arable land better. "We must ensure also that, more than half of harvested goods lost during transport and storage," says Nellemann. "But we . Need to increase crop yields, if we want to stay in the face of population growth, the impending food crisis "
Mary Fosi, Secretary of State in Cameroon's Environment Ministry begs formally for investors". The main thing, someone develops our agriculture "Of course it would be nicer if Cameroon support would get to build his own farm, Fosi said. "But we can pick and choose not."
(Copyright with the daily newspaper, 03/11/2009)
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