Youths angry at failure to fight Islamic uprising stone Nigerian president's convoy in Yola
YOLA, Nigeria (AP) " Youths angry at failure to fight Islamic uprising stone Nigerian president's convoy in Yola.
There are other problems in Nigeria that can be one of the reasons the rebels exist.
January 28, 2015
By Chris Arsenault
Rome — Thousands of small farmers (click here) in northeastern Nigeria are facing eviction from their ancestral lands without consultation or compensation to make way for a U.S.-owned rice plantation, according to a report released on Wednesday.
A new 30,000 hectare rice plantation, owned by Oklahoma-based Dominion Farms, will displace up to 40,000 people in Taraba state, said Mariann Bassey Orovwuje, a spokeswoman for the NGO Friends of the Earth Nigeria, one of the environmental and activist groups behind the report.
"The people living on this land didn't even know the deal was happening," Orovwuje told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
"Compensation is not coming; the people were never asked and never told. Eventually, they will all be forced off the land."
Calls to Dominion Farms' headquarters went unanswered....
The for profit farm of Oklahoma-based Dominion Farms is not the same as the programs to rehabilitate land use in Africa.
The agricultural program was begun because there were many problems with the way land was utilized by Africans. The land is often inherited by the sons of a land owner. It is divided into smaller land plots for each son. As the generations pass and more divisions occur, the land becomes meaningless in providing for it's owners. African agriculture had to take on a new definition for it to be productive again, however, 'for profit' by exporting countries is not the answer or in the plan. How the heck did an Oklahoma company acquire land for profit in Nigeria?
January 29, 2015
By Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, President of Mauritania and AU Chair
On the 10th Anniversary (click here) of the adoption of the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP), African Union declared the year 2014 to be the Year of Agriculture and Food Security in Africa. There is much to celebrate; agricultural production in Africa has increased steadily over the last 30 years: its value has almost tripled showing an increase that clearly exceeds the growth rate for global agricultural production over the same period, almost identical to that of South America and below but comparable to growth in Asia based on NEPAD statistics.
YOLA, Nigeria (AP) " Youths angry at failure to fight Islamic uprising stone Nigerian president's convoy in Yola.
There are other problems in Nigeria that can be one of the reasons the rebels exist.
January 28, 2015
By Chris Arsenault
Rome — Thousands of small farmers (click here) in northeastern Nigeria are facing eviction from their ancestral lands without consultation or compensation to make way for a U.S.-owned rice plantation, according to a report released on Wednesday.
A new 30,000 hectare rice plantation, owned by Oklahoma-based Dominion Farms, will displace up to 40,000 people in Taraba state, said Mariann Bassey Orovwuje, a spokeswoman for the NGO Friends of the Earth Nigeria, one of the environmental and activist groups behind the report.
"The people living on this land didn't even know the deal was happening," Orovwuje told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
"Compensation is not coming; the people were never asked and never told. Eventually, they will all be forced off the land."
Calls to Dominion Farms' headquarters went unanswered....
The for profit farm of Oklahoma-based Dominion Farms is not the same as the programs to rehabilitate land use in Africa.
The agricultural program was begun because there were many problems with the way land was utilized by Africans. The land is often inherited by the sons of a land owner. It is divided into smaller land plots for each son. As the generations pass and more divisions occur, the land becomes meaningless in providing for it's owners. African agriculture had to take on a new definition for it to be productive again, however, 'for profit' by exporting countries is not the answer or in the plan. How the heck did an Oklahoma company acquire land for profit in Nigeria?
January 29, 2015
By Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, President of Mauritania and AU Chair
On the 10th Anniversary (click here) of the adoption of the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP), African Union declared the year 2014 to be the Year of Agriculture and Food Security in Africa. There is much to celebrate; agricultural production in Africa has increased steadily over the last 30 years: its value has almost tripled showing an increase that clearly exceeds the growth rate for global agricultural production over the same period, almost identical to that of South America and below but comparable to growth in Asia based on NEPAD statistics.
