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 Re: Is There Such a Thing as Agro-Imperialism? (Re: Deng)
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Quote: Dr. Robert Zeigler, an eminent American botanist, flew to Saudi Arabia in March for a series of high-level discussions about the future of the kingdom’s food supply. Saudi leaders were frightened: heavily dependent on imports, they had seen the price of rice and wheat, their dietary staples, fluctuate violently on the world market over the previous three years, at one point doubling in just a few months. The Saudis, rich in oil money but poor in arable land, were groping for a strategy to ensure that they could continue to meet the appetites of a growing population, and they wanted Zeigler’s expertise.
There are basically two ways to increase the supply of food: find new fields to plant or invent ways to multiply what existing ones yield. Zeigler runs the International Rice Research Institute, which is devoted to the latter course, employing science to expand the size of harvests. During the so-called Green Revolution of the 1960s, the institute’s laboratory developed “miracle rice,” a high-yielding strain that has been credited with saving millions of people from famine. Zeigler went to Saudi Arabia hoping that the wealthy kingdom might offer money for the basic research that leads to such technological breakthroughs. Instead, to his surprise, he discovered that the Saudis wanted to attack the problem from the opposite direction. They were looking for land.
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وماذا كان يتوقع دكتور روبرت زيغلر من السعودية
ان تقدم له تمويلا لابحاث تكنلوجيا الاغذية خاصة الحبوب
لقد جاء الى السعودية بعقلية علمية هدفها نفع البشرية
فتفاجا بعقلية المصلحة الذاتية
ان الدول العربية وخاصة دول الخليج تسعى لحل مشاكلها ومعضلاتها دون اي اهتمام بتبعات الحلول
Quote: In a series of meetings, Saudi government officials, bankers and agribusiness executives told an institute delegation led by Zeigler that they intended to spend billions of dollars to establish plantations to produce rice and other staple crops in African nations like Mali, Senegal, Sudan and Ethiopia. “They laid out this incredible plan,” Zeigler recalled. He was flabbergasted, not only by the scale of the projects but also by the audacity of their setting. Africa, the world’s most famished continent, can’t currently feed itself, let alone foreign markets.
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معلوم ان كثير من دول الخليج لجات الى الاستثمار الزراعي في دول افريقية منها السودان ولكن
هذه الاستثمارات فشلت لعدة اسباب اهمها الاستقرار الاقتصادي وتذبذبات القوانين التجارية
| Quote: Foreign investors — some of them representing governments, some of them private interests — are promising to construct infrastructure, bring new technologies, create jobs and boost the productivity of underused land so that it not only feeds overseas markets but also feeds more Africans. (More than a third of the continent’s population is malnourished.) They’ve found that impoverished governments are often only too welcoming, offering land at giveaway prices. A few transactions have received significant publicity, like Kenya’s deal to lease nearly 100,000 acres to the Qatari government in return for financing a new port, or South Korea’s agreement to develop almost 400 square miles in Tanzania. But many other land deals, of near-unprecedented size, have been sealed with little fanfare |
وهذه حقيقة واقعية فكثير من الدول الافريقية تقوم بتقديم التسهيلات بغرض الترحيب او جذب الانتباه
او منح الهبات او الحصول على وعود بتنفيذ مشروعات تنموية كما حدث في كينيا والسودان
ولايخفى على القراء ان المثل الاعلى نطبق على السودان مع بن لادن حيث فرشوا له الارض بالورود
وقدمو له كل غالي ورخيص لمجرد اقناعه بالاستثمار في السودان وكان ما كان وكانت التجارة باسم الدين
والبيع والشراء بعقول بسطاء الناس
وفي الاخر تم طرده او تم الاتفاق على تسليمه
الدول الافريقية تتملكها عقدة النقص تجاه الدول الراسمالية وبناء عليه تفتح ذراعيها واحضانها بدفء بالغ الغرض منه التسول او عكس نظرة جيدة لدى المجتمع الدولي
وتنسى ان الغرض الرئيسي من دخول هذه الاستثمارات هو البزنس وليس العطف او الحنان.
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