Communities in Nigeria speak out on Wilmar palm oil landgrab: Video and statement
1 December 2015
Earlier this year, Friends of the Earth groups in Nigeria and the United States published the report Exploitation and empty promises: Wilmar’s Nigerian land grab, which raises serious concerns about human rights, equity and development justice in regards to PZ-Wilmar’s purchase of lands in Nigeria’s Cross River State.
In partnership with Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the... Earth Nigeria, Nigerian communities now respond to the company with a formal statement
https://youtu.be/sq3CxxVWm4U
re African countries truly independent? If not now when?
"LifeMosaic estimates that between 2000 and 2010, land deals covering a total of 30 and 50 million hectares were concluded in Africa, Asia and Latin America." Most of the land is taken from Africa. No wonder the continent is unstable. Read article below and watch video. More on PLAD Blog: http://africalandgrab.com/
REDD Monitor | 22 October 2015
Grains, meat, sugar, palm oil, pulp and paper, coal, aluminium, copper..., gold, oil. Just some of the commodities that corporations take from the lands of indigenous peoples to ship around the world in order to generate profits.
A new video by LifeMosaic, part of the series “Territories of Life“, looks at the impacts of this enormous land grab on indigenous peoples around the world. http://africalandgrab.com/
Europeans have rejected GMOs. According to the EU representative in DC. Europeans are listening to their consumers who flatly reject GMOs.
Why then, dump them in Africa?
Who gave them the right to impose this on our people? isn't Africa free continent? ...
Anyone cares about Africa being used as Guinea pig--test field for these GMO products?
Since when, Bill Gates and his wife cares about Africans?
Where are the hospitals, schools, R&D centers their have built?
We Africans, must not let any corrupt and/or ignorant government official mesmerized by the billionaires, sell off our continent.
Africans have fed themselves for centuries why now let greedy people control our food supply chain?
High time for Africans to get it. No one is going to fix our problems except us.
http://www.theguardian.com/…/29/gates-foundation-gm-monsanto
We want the Gates out of Africa.
Based on their records on the continent, they are no good for our people
GMO imperialism: Bill Gates and biotech industry are forcing unwilling African countries to accept costly, untested GMOs
Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/049037_GMOs_Bill_Gates_Africa.ht…
Africa Energy Debacle: Will DRC's Inga mega water falls Solve Africa's Critical Energy problem? Yes! What's the problem? INTEREST GROUPs
Some Facts: Europe, America, Asia all have nuclear energy and that is why they are developed and growing.
Did these continents collapse because of their dams? No.
...Continue Reading
Mr. Gates out of Africa. Africans don't need you
Partnership League for Africa's Development - PLAD updated their cover photo.
PLAD fundamentally disagrees with this notion that Mr. Gates cares about Africa and Africans. We believe that he's creating a "dependency" so that Africa and its people will depend on him for their source of food supply.
How can the greatest continent on the planet endowed with minerals, water falls and green land wait to be fed by Mr. Gates? Please get out of our continent!
http://www.theverge.com/…/bill-gates-gmo-farming-world-hung…
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As this concerns women all over the world and we all know that African women are the backbone of Africa's economic stability, you may find this interview on potential economic growth with Gender equality of interest.
Stay tuned on the upcoming MUA-PLAD event -- Abuja, Nigeria March, 27-28, 2015
Music Unites Africa in partnership with PLAD are working directly with the African Union, the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa - ECA, the African Development Bank - AfDB and the newly inaugurated Land Policy Initiative – LPI on our 2-day event, as it concerns all stakeholders.
Music Unites Africa – MUA in partnership with PLAD – Partnership League for Africa’s Development are hosting ...a 2-day event that will take place in Abuja , Nigeria on the 27th and 28th of March 2015 (with the support of "serious" friends of Africa who are concerned about inevitable uprising and environmental destructions in Africa).
The MUA/PLAD AFRICAN HERITAGE MUSIC CONCERT is themed: “#educateAFRICA – HOW TO STOP LAND GRABBING IN AFRICA”.
We are using our #educateAFRICA platform (which was launched on November 15, 2014 in Abuja – Nigeria by Music Unites Africa) to create a wide spectrum of globalized awareness to get Africans to sit up and unite under common visions and goals.
Check this website!!! We would like to hear from you! Don't forget to write something.
http://www.musicunitesafrica.org/…/coming-soon-muaplad-afri…
Join us! And Let's rebuild Africa.
Here is a link to the Africa Now interview of Dr. Bernadette Atuahene on the land grab issue - Land Reform in South Africa. Listen for yourself!
Today's Africa Now radio show brought Dr. Bernadette Atuahene to our attention. She made a statement about how White former S. African land owners are paid for their land on a market based system while Black former African land owners are paid in a symbolic compensation basis. Check out her book and documentary www.wewantwhatsours.com
Excellent conversation Going On Now - Land Reform in South Africa with Dr. Bernadette Atuahene at 89.3FM in Washington, DC Metro area www.wpfwfm.org.
Partnership League for Africa's Development - PLAD updated their cover photo.
Partnership League for Africa's Development - PLAD updated their cover photo.
