Monday, December 6, 2010

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Saudi investors would be willing to take control of rice production in Senegal and Mali

The Saudi strategy to outsource food production will be at the heart of discussions when several heads of state and delegations of senior officials from African countries will arrive in Riyadh for a conference Investment, December 4, 2010. In some of these countries, Saudi investors acquire agricultural land and already starting to implement the policy of the Kingdom. The rice lands of West Africa is one of their main targets. New information GRAIN obtained show that the businessmen's most powerful kingdom are negotiating transactions, Senegal, Mali and other countries, such transactions would ensure their control of several hundreds of thousands of hectares of rice lands and more fertile region and the production would be exported to Saudi Arabia. These transactions can dangerously undermine that e food security of millions of peasants and farmers and destroy their livelihoods. All this concocted behind closed doors with African governments, without which the people concerned or the general public are made aware. You can
To access this new current in French-cons here: http://www.grain.org/articles/?id=74
The English version is available here: http://www.grain.org/articles/?id = 75

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