Comments on: Saudi Company Leases Ethiopian Land for Rice Export http://www.theworld.org/2011/12/saudi-arabia-leased-ethiopia-land-rice-export/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=saudi-arabia-leased-ethiopia-land-rice-export Global Perspectives for an American Audience Tue, 12 Feb 2013 14:49:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Anonymous http://www.theworld.org/2011/12/saudi-arabia-leased-ethiopia-land-rice-export/comment-page-1/#comment-23565 Anonymous Mon, 20 Feb 2012 17:39:00 +0000 http://www.theworld.org/?p=100002#comment-23565 The fact, that the EPRDF regieme is selling out on the nations fertile land to foreign capitalists for a price we now know to be less than pittance, while it is going head ovre heels to trumple on the federal constituion, just so it will make it convenient to take over the  property rights of the urban few as if the theft of the rights of the rest 85+% is'nt enough: should be a rallying cause for all God -fearing-patriotic ethiopians to set their differences aside and take all peacefull measures available to put a stop to the regimes acts of treason.  The fact, that the EPRDF regieme is selling out on the nations fertile land to foreign capitalists for a price we now know to be less than pittance, while it is going head ovre heels to trumple on the federal constituion, just so it will make it convenient to take over the  property rights of the urban few as if the theft of the rights of the rest 85+% is’nt enough: should be a rallying cause for all God -fearing-patriotic ethiopians to set their differences aside and take all peacefull measures available to put a stop to the regimes acts of treason. 

]]> By: Zoal Grfan http://www.theworld.org/2011/12/saudi-arabia-leased-ethiopia-land-rice-export/comment-page-1/#comment-23164 Zoal Grfan Sat, 28 Jan 2012 02:56:00 +0000 http://www.theworld.org/?p=100002#comment-23164 @mmmelius:disqus Many thanks for highlighting many points. Its quite clear that the more population grow the more they need water and food in the region. I think this project wasn't EIA compliance, all the 300 investors including Saudi, Pakistani and Ethiopian government they only thinking about numbers. Not the Ethio people (without community development through having better education and improving health sector levels and also water system). I'm disappointed with those macro-projects, perhaps for both government and investors should have a long-term EIA. Why its not been plant with Ethio-National? I always hear about the No.1 Oil producer in the world, what if Ethiopian have made the same. That one of my wishes to the Mama Africa. Mula @mmmelius:disqus Many thanks for highlighting many points.
Its quite clear that the more population grow the more they need water and food in the region.

I think this project wasn’t EIA compliance, all the 300 investors including Saudi, Pakistani and Ethiopian government they only thinking about numbers. Not the Ethio people (without community development through having better education and improving health sector levels and also water system).

I’m disappointed with those macro-projects, perhaps for both government and investors should have a long-term EIA. Why its not been plant with Ethio-National?

I always hear about the No.1 Oil producer in the world, what if Ethiopian have made the same. That one of my wishes to the Mama Africa.

Mula

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.theworld.org/2011/12/saudi-arabia-leased-ethiopia-land-rice-export/comment-page-1/#comment-22842 Anonymous Fri, 30 Dec 2011 15:37:00 +0000 http://www.theworld.org/?p=100002#comment-22842 Oh, dear, two days after this story aired and there are no comments. These land grabs and other agricultural expansion plans, especially for biofuels, are one of the biggest under-reported stories of our time. In the US Midwest, we now have bi-hemisphere farmers, who operate here and in S. America. It's like the US's Homestead Act of the 19th Century, in which individuals went out and claimed land that the US had taken from native people. Now it's happening on a much bigger scale, world wide. The social disruption and environmental destruction that results might be acceptable if this were going to feed local people, but too often it displaces local farmers to produce biofuels and other export commodities. Please keep covering this issue. One group that follows the biofuel connection is biofuelwatch. You'll find good links at their website. Oh, dear, two days after this story aired and there are no comments. These land grabs and other agricultural expansion plans, especially for biofuels, are one of the biggest under-reported stories of our time.
In the US Midwest, we now have bi-hemisphere farmers, who operate here and in S. America. It’s like the US’s Homestead Act of the 19th Century, in which individuals went out and claimed land that the US had taken from native people. Now it’s happening on a much bigger scale, world wide. The social disruption and environmental destruction that results might be acceptable if this were going to feed local people, but too often it displaces local farmers to produce biofuels and other export commodities. Please keep covering this issue. One group that follows the biofuel connection is biofuelwatch. You’ll find good links at their website.

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