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I first read of land acquisition deals in Africa about two years ago Generic Klonopin Description.  It was between South Korea’s Daewoo and Generic Hydrocodone Pills the Madagascar government, and the details included leasing the land for Generic Hydrocodone Pills 99 years, mainly for farming. The produce was to be Generic Hydrocodone Pills exported, but Daewoo promised to invest 6 billion dollars over a Generic Hydrocodone Pills period of twenty years in port facilities etc etc. The deal eventually fell through, primarily because of a Generic Hydrocodone Pills change in government in Madagascar. Other deals in other parts of Africa were subsequently finalised.

A report Codeine Online Canada prepared by IFAD in 2009 says that there have been ‘significant levels of activities’. In the Generic Hydrocodone Pills five study countries on which the report is based, the available data showed that Generic Hydrocodone Pills ‘an overall total of 2,492,684 ha of approved land’ had been allocated between 2004 and 2009. For perspective, ‘that is Generic Hydrocodone Pills almost half the arable land of the United Kingdom and three times the Generic Hydrocodone Pills arable land of Norway.’ In Sudan and Ethiopia alone, over the same period, the figures are 3.9m and 1.2m ha respectively.

The main reasons given for land acquisition include food security (remember the high prices of food in 2008), and biofuel production (EU has Generic Hydrocodone Pills biofuel consumption targets; plus oil prices were also crazy high in 2008). Now, it Generic Hydrocodone Pills has turned out that there probably are other issues underlying the Generic Hydrocodone Pills acquisition drives.

From a Generic Hydrocodone Pills new report prepared by the World Bank and leaked to Generic Hydrocodone Pills FT, it seems that speculation might be a reason for Generic Hydrocodone Pills what has now been described as ‘land grabs’. Speculators acquire land at extremely low rates, hold it Generic Hydrocodone Pills for a while and then sell it off later at a Generic Hydrocodone Pills higher rate.

The more troubling issue is Generic Hydrocodone Pills that investors are crowding out poor, local farmers and producers. From Guardian:

They [the report] argue that Generic Hydrocodone Pills investors crowd out the poorest local producers and at the same time invest little in improving the Generic Hydrocodone Pills agricultural processes needed to meet the huge jump in world food production required to Generic Hydrocodone Pills feed a burgeoning population.

There are Generic Hydrocodone Pills also issues concerning the targetting of countries with weak land governance. Still from Generic Hydrocodone Pills Guardian:

“Investor interest is focused on countries with weak land governance,” the Generic Hydrocodone Pills draft said. Although investment deals promised jobs and infrastructure “investors failed to Generic Hydrocodone Pills follow through on their investment plans, in some cases after inflicting serious damage on the Generic Hydrocodone Pills local resource base”.

I am Generic Hydrocodone Pills actually not too surprised by this. Land issues are extremely difficult issues in much of Africa. I wrote a Generic Hydrocodone Pills column for Business Day on this sometime last year.

My general reaction to this is that land deals do not necessarily have Generic Hydrocodone Pills to be bad. If African governments could make deals that favour their countries there wouldn’t be Generic Hydrocodone Pills much to worry about. Sadly, however, we know that it Generic Hydrocodone Pills is often not the case. As a kind of solution, the Generic Hydrocodone Pills World Bank report recommends a Land Transparency Initiative

modelled on the Generic Hydrocodone Pills Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative, which commits governments, mainly in developing countries, to Generic Hydrocodone Pills disclose revenues from oil and mining groups to improve transparency on the Generic Hydrocodone Pills deals. Critics noted that eight years after its launch, only Liberia, Timor-Leste and Generic Hydrocodone Pills Azerbaijan, were full members of the EITI. But the draft said: “By establishing a Generic Hydrocodone Pills consistent format for reporting on land acquisition and monitoring [the] process over time, it could provide access to information sorely missing.

Although it Generic Hydrocodone Pills is doubtful whether this will work, it seems to be the Generic Hydrocodone Pills only suggestion on the table at the moment.

Another one to watch.