so the New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition is . Fucking despicable.
"We kind of gave Africa to the Europeans first and to the Chinese later, but today it is wide open for us." ... Jeff Immelt, General Electric CEO, 2014
The New Alliance officially involves governments and corporate powers: the European Commission, USA, Canada, UK, Belgium, France, Germany, Ireland, Japan, Russia, Norway ... General Electric, Monsanto, DuPont, Cargill, Yara, Louis Dreyfus, Agro EcoEnergy, others ...
Its aim is to "support" African economies by forcing policy reforms such as:
- Protecting intellectual property rights, especially patents on GMO seeds
- Strengthening private property contracts
- "Simplifying" tax codes ... reducing public resources
- Reforming seed laws to support seed patents
- Selling public land to private companies
- Weakening government control of local agriculture (weakening tariffs , subsidies)
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The New Alliance is officially in effect only in specific African countries, many of the governments and companies involved are familiar names to those seeing the same processes, the same buying-up of land , in other places. Also countries that participate in modern imperialism aren't part of it (e.g., Australia, New Zealand).
Nevertheless it captures the modern iteration of empire very well.
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World Hunger: 10 Myths. Frances Moore Lappé and Joseph Collins, 2015.