President Barack Obama will soon publicly announce his $3 billion plan to securitize Africa’s food supply and agricultural farms. Obama wants to use Africa as a base for growing the world’s food supply, under his controlled initiatives.
The issue of food securitization is expected to be raised at the G-8 Summit meeting. The UK, multi-national corporations, some African countries and other G-8 nations will be joined together as the New Alliance for Food and Nutrition Security (NAFNS). The CEOs of 40 US privately owned corporations have pledged $3.5 billion in food and nutritional assistance alongside the government.
Through corporatism, Obama hopes to gain control over Africa’s rich lands to have full oversight through NAFNS.
Among the initiatives slated to be unveiled at the G-8 Summit, U.S. -based farm equipment maker Agco Corp will invest $100 million over the next three years to implement model farms and training centers aimed at improving productivity for 25,000 smallholder farmers from Ethiopia to Mozambique.
The UK alone has pledged $4 billion to capitalize from Africa’s farm land as well as assist in drawing up codes that will be enforced to protect their investment.
Obama is using investments in African agriculture with a collaborative effort with private corporations.
Rajiv Shah, head of the US Agency for international Development (USAID) praises the President’s plan. “We’re very excited. It really is the culmination of years of effort on behalf of African leaders, on behalf of entrepreneurs, this Administration, partners in the G8 and many, many others including the private companies that are joining this private-public partnership.”
“Governments cannot tackle this challenge alone. The skills, resources and financial expertise of leading private businesses will help transform African agriculture, giving poor farmers the chance to pull themselves out of poverty, hunger and malnutrition,” said the UK’s Secretary of State for International Development, Andrew Mitchell.
The securitization effort will center on the sub-Saharan African region. Shah says private investment in agriculture will aid the global economic growth.
Ninety percent of Africa’s food is produced by small farms. By bringing the private sector to these farms, they will see political will control their production and distribution.
The announcement from President Obama comes on the heels of the UN’s declaration that they will coerce nations like Ethiopia, South Sudan, Democratic Republic of Congo and Sierra Leone, in Africa “voluntarily” sign agreements with multi-national corporations and foreign investors, allowing them to control agricultural land.
Obama is directly mirroring the UN’s proposal to securitize the world’s food supply through their “land grab” invasion of Africa.
The UN has enacted global guidelines on purchasing agricultural land from developing nations like Africa and Asia. They claim that to secure equality for the poor and disadvantaged, this international body must control their lands through the allowance of mutli-national corporations and governments who will develop the land for agriculture and securitize the crop yields; thereby giving the UN control over the global food supply.
The document entitled The UN Global Compact and the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises outlines through “voluntary” means, the UN will implement their international guidelines with respect to corporate conduct, standards and abilities.
Backing the UN is several Nobel Laureates from the Copenhagen Consensus 2012 Project have identified several African countries as in dire need of assistance. Their focus is to support the UN’s land grab plan, as well as the Global Fund’s Affordable Medicines Fund that is in negotiations with pharmaceutical corporations to create drugs that can be disbursed to the African people.
While the President, the UN and scientists from Copenhagen Consensus 2012 Project ban together to ensure private corporations and foreign governments lay claim to Africa’s wealth of natural resources, the ideal of secure equality for the poor and disadvantaged takes on a whole new meaning.
The starving people of Africa are simply trying to maintain control over their land and resources.
The UN, with Obama pledging support, will not allow that to happen.
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