The food campaign

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Huge corporations are taking control of Africa’s food, at the expense of the small-scale farmers who feed most of the continent. And the governments of rich countries are assisting this corporate take-over.

The UK government is colluding with corporations like Monsanto, Unilever and Nestlé through the New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition, which helps big business get access to Africa’s land, seeds and markets. The government is channelling £600 million in aid money through the New Alliance.

Farmers’ groups in Africa have described schemes like this as ‘a new wave of colonialism’ - a twenty-first century bid to take control of Africa's land and resources.

People are fighting to win back control over food, through the international movement for food sovereignty. In Africa, small-scale farmers are fighting to keep control of their land and seeds, to produce food sustainably, and to prioritise food for local populations over exports.

Full article and infographics:

http://www.globaljustice.org.uk/food-campaign


http://www.globaljustice.org.uk/infographics/new-scramble-africa-food-dfid-infrastructure-extraction/index.htm

The new scramble for Africa. The race to extract Africa's resources for export to foreign markets instead of feeding local people.

http://www.globaljustice.org.uk/infographics/new-scramble-africa-food-monsanto-syngenta-yara/index.htm

The new scramble for Africa. The rush to take control of Africa's seed system.

http://www.globaljustice.org.uk/what-food-sovereignty

Food Soverereignty

We are supporting the UK movement for food sovereignty, making links with local food movements in Africa and around the world

Corporate agriculture

We are exposing the impact of corporate agriculture on communities across Africa

http://www.globaljustice.org.uk/infographics/new-scramble-africa-food-monsanto-syngenta-yara/index.htm

Nigerian farmers forced off land for massive rice plantation project backed by DFID aid initiative

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1016112823

Monbiot: Corporate Carve-Up

http://www.democraticunderground.com/101667354

Food speculation

http://www.globaljustice.org.uk/food-speculation

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1. It is Neocolonialism, neoliberal 21st century style, ravaging the world.