…Mutli-national corporations are descending on Africa to utilize their land in the hopes that crop yields will boost their profit margins.
Efforts like the Gitau’s banana project, which produces varied crops, have invested in improved transportation while exploiting small-scale farmers in a blueprint plan to revolutionize Africa’s unused arable land.
“Africa is now the last frontier in terms of arable land,” said James Nyoro, the Rockefeller Foundation’s managing director for Africa. “With the population growing to 9 billion, the rest of the world will have to depend upon Africa to feed it.”…
http://www.activistpost.com/2012/05/corporations-descend-on-africa-to.html
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