Thread: G8 pledges to lift 50 million Africans out of poverty

G8 pledges to lift 50 million Africans out of poverty

By Agence France-Presse
Sunday, May 20, 2012 9:29 EDT



G8 leaders on Saturday pledged to lift millions of Africans out of poverty by promoting investments in sustainable agriculture.

“Today we commit to launch a New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition to accelerate the flow of private capital to African agriculture, take to scale new technologies and other innovations that can increase sustainable agricultural productivity, and reduce the risk borne by vulnerable economies and communities,” the Group of Eight major industrial nations said.

“This New Alliance will lift 50 million people out of poverty over the next decade.”

The ambitious announcement, contained in a final communique released after a high-profile gathering on a range of topics, came a day after President Barack Obama reached out to the private sector for financial support for the cause.

The initiative also comes as pledges expire from 2009 in L’Aquila, Italy, where the G8 promised more than $20 billion over three years to improve food access to Africans and others hit by the high prices and a global slowdown.

Civil society observers appeared skeptical about the endeavor’s success.

“The G8 have offered warm words on food security but have failed to make a specific pledge to simply maintain L’Aquila level financial commitments going forward,” said Katie Campbell, senior policy analyst for ActionAid USA. “In failing to deliver this, they have turned their backs on the women smallholder farmers who are so vital to food security in Africa.”

Oxfam claimed that input from those directly concerned had not been taken into consideration.

“Poor countries have presented the G8 country-led, sustainable, and coordinated plans for food security and agricultural development, but today the G8 gave them the cold shoulder,” Lamine Ndiaye, the group’s Pan Africa Head of Economic Justice, said in a statement.


According to the G8 communique, the initiative would, among other things, be guided by “a collective commitment to invest in credible, comprehensive and country-owned plans.”

The Norwegian global firm Yara has said it would build Africa’s first major fertilizer production facility as part of the initiative. Companies including Pepsi and Dupont have also pledged to invest in Africa’s small-scale farmers.

G8 pledges to lift 50 million Africans out of poverty | The Raw Story

let me break this down into laymans terms

1. We are going to Bomb the crap out of you
2. We will Impose democracy by Bullets slung at your head and any other body part
3. We will Install a Central Bank
4. We Will Steal your countrys resourses
5. We will rob you blind while telling you it is in your best interest
6 If you have Gold, diamonds, Oil or ANYTHING of Value... you better hide it
7. Be Prepared to produce Poppy.. seems to be the drug of choice for NATO crops that are pushed onto the farmers... check out Afghanistan... its a bumper crop year after year

Welcome to the New World Order

Obama Announces Aid Initiative to Support UN’s African Land Grab

Susanne Posel May 19th, 2012



Susanne PoselMay 19, 2012

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.

Obama Announces Aid Initiative to Support UN

We don't have 3 Billion dollars to contribute to nation-building by the UN. Obama should stop writing bad checks against the American people. JMO