ApocaDocs: Biofuels War: The New Scramble for Africa by Western Big Money Profiteers

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Posted Sun Sep 7 2008: from EcoWorldly:


	Biofuels War: The New Scramble for Africa by Western Big Money Profiteers http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1220796565 African civil society is calling for a moratorium on new biofuels investments in Africa amid concern that that the biofuels revolution will bring more food insecurity, higher food prices and hunger to the continent. In Tanzania, thousands of farmers growing cereals like corn and rice are already being evicted from fertile land with good access to water, for biofuel sugar cane and jatropha plantations on newly privatized land. According to the anti-biofuels investment campaigners, whole villages are being cleared or grabbed, but families have been given minimal compensation or opportunities for their loss of land, community and way of life.

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Here in the West, we call that development.