Africa must wake up to the reality that hunger is now a national security issue http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Hunger+now+a+national+security+issue/-/440808/1479208/-/ug88ucz/-/index.html … by @Calestous
@Ougasam @GIAradottir Can you provide evidence of impact rather than speculation?
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@Calestous@GIAradottir in Another, hundreds of villagers were displaced to give way for British firm to plant establish a forest... -
@Ougasam@GIAradottir Is there any evidence of local people displacing other local people? -
@Calestous@GIAradottir Examples of powerful Locals displacing other locals do exist here in Uganda.
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@Calestous@GIAradottir In Uganda, almost an entire Island was taken and given to a foreign firm to grow palm trees for cooking oil prdction -
@Ougasam@Calestous Land is very precious, don't know your example, but know of misuse of land/resources which worries me immensely. -
@GIAradottir@Calestous The other problem is indeed miss use or under utilization of land plus Govts failure at effective at mobilisation
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@Calestous@GIAradottir I could write a detailed paper on this sighting examples and impactThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@Calestous@GIAradottir Alarm about the impending food crisis are being sounded But this is not trickling down 2de mostly illiterate farmersThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@Calestous@GIAradottir These is happening in many African countries. citizens being rendered landless and their source of Livelihood takenThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@Calestous@GIAradottir Former President of Madascar leased almost a half of the country's arable land to Hyundai Co for wheat prodcutionThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@Calestous@GIAradottir China for intsance got thousands of hectares in Congo to grow food that would be exported to ChinaThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@Calestous@GIAradottir There are several examples, but in all this cases people lose land they have depended on for growing foodThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@Calestous@GIAradottir Govt currently in process of giving another huge chunk of land in north to a sugar processing firm to grow caneThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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