Obama turns to partnership with Monsanto, Cargill and DuPont to help African farmers

[Alberto_Balsalm]

Buffeted by the euro zone crisis and distracted by political problems at home, the leaders of the world's industrial powers are turning to the private sector to help fight hunger and malnutrition for up to a billion people beset by shortages, droughts and rising food prices.

President Barack Obama will announce a new public-private partnership program Friday morning, seeking to spur this weekend's summit of the wealthy Group of Eight to focus on market methods to boost production, particularly among hardscrabble small-scale farmers in Africa who may hold the key to improved world food supplies.

This year's meeting of the G8 - the United States, Britain, Germany, France, Italy, Japan, Canada and Russia - will focus on the economic headaches plaguing the world's richest countries, including worries over Greece, the future of the euro zone and proposals to tap emergency oil reserves to offset diminishing exports from sanctions-hit Iran.

But US officials say the Obama administration also wants the G8 to take fresh steps to improve global food security, building on its 2009 summit in L'Aquila, Italy, which sought to mobilize $20 billion over three years to boost agricultural investments in poor countries.

Global food prices soared in 2008, which led to increased hunger, malnutrition and social unrest, highlighting the years of underinvestment in agriculture in developing countries.

They have remained high and volatile since, rising by 40 percent between June and December 2010 alone, while maize and wheat prices doubled during that period, raising the food bills of the world's poor countries.

Obama, who has made improving global food supplies a keystone of U.S. overseas development policy, is expected to announce a new initiative to improve nutrition for 50 million vulnerable people, primarily in Africa, over the next decade.

He will also announce a new partnership of agribusiness giants such as DuPont, Monsanto and Cargill, along with smaller companies including almost 20 from Africa, which will commit some $3 billion for projects to help farmers in the developing world build local markets and improve productivity.

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Latest-...frican-farmers

[Corporate Avenger]

So Africans can prepare for more famine, disease, and all the other problems that come with those things. What a douche, if anyone thinks this has anything to do with helping starving Africans I have a bridge I'd like to sell you.

[hadit]

So Africans can prepare for more famine, disease, and all the other problems that come with those things. What a douche, if anyone thinks this has anything to do with helping starving Africans I have a bridge I'd like to sell you.

I take it you will help the nation retire the president in the fall?

[Corporate Avenger]

I take it you will help the nation retire the president in the fall?

I'd like to but not for another Wall st. mafia crook.. We're screwed either way, the bad guys control the politicians and have unlimited funds, like someone used to say, "if an election changed anything, they'd make it illegal". So what's left if elections don't work? Protesting? Shit, even the most peaceful protesters in this country these days are ignored and/or maligned by the corporate media. And are met with brutal militarized police forces that wipe their asses with the Constitution not un-like other totalitarian nations China/Iran/Saudi Arabia etc..

It's Orwellian, hearing Monsanto, Cargill, DuPont, and Syngenta are going to help feed starving Africans is insane, it's about money and total control of Africa's agriculture and resources, and it will be forced on them with an iron fist as it has the rest of the world.

[hadit]

I'd like to but not for another Wall st. mafia crook.. We're screwed either way, the bad guys control the politicians and have unlimited funds, like someone used to say, "if an election changed anything, they'd make it illegal". So what's left if elections don't work? Protesting? Shit, even the most peaceful protesters in this country these days are ignored and/or maligned by the corporate media. And are met with brutal militarized police forces that wipe their asses with the Constitution not un-like other totalitarian nations China/Iran/Saudi Arabia etc..

It's Orwellian, hearing Monsanto, Cargill, DuPont, and Syngenta are going to help feed starving Africans is insane, it's about money and total control of Africa's agriculture and resources, and it will be forced on them with an iron fist as it has the rest of the world.

IOW, Obama has no incentive to even give your concerns a pretend listen.

[86Dùde]

Monsanto is the most vile corporation on the planet and the OA is full of their goose steppers. The corporate headquarters should be truck bombed.

[Corporate Avenger]

IOW, Obama has no incentive to even give your concerns a pretend listen.

If he cared about his legacy, his children, the world, and his chances of passing through those pearly gates (as he believes in God) he would.

[hadit]

If he cared about his legacy, his children, the world, and his chances of passing through those pearly gates (as he believes in God) he would.

If you're going to vote for him anyway, why would he? At least vote against him.

[Corporate Avenger]

Monsanto is the most vile corporation on the planet and the OA is full of their goose steppers.

Yup, I used to have trouble deciding who was the worst, but after learning how Monsanto is killing for profit, poisoning the world by force, and forever fucking up mother nature, I realized they take the cake. Monsanto is basically a very well funded terrorist organization, and a very smart one, and one that makes Al-Qaeda look like amateurs, while Al-Qaeda dreams about killing Americans by the boatload, Monsanto is doing it. And they do things very discreetly, notice you almost never hear there name mentioned in the mainstream media.

And yes, they own Obama as they did Bush, and they'd own Romney too. It makes me wonder why so many people believe the government is so corrupt and bad, yet don't spend a second to find out why, they just believe government automatically equals evil or something. You gotta look at the reasons why, fluck, the white house is full of big time criminal Wall st. bankers, and Monsanto exec's, is it any surprise why not one banker has gone to jail much less even be prosecuted? Or why Obama has continued to allow Monsanto and other bio-tech monsters to poison the nation? They won't even allow us freedom of choice, fighting like rabid dogs to keep GMO labeling laws from taking effect. I mean fluck, if a company believes in their product you'd think they'd be proud to advertise it, not keep it's inclusion in foods a secret. I didn't sign up to be a lab rat, yet that's what our government has allowed us all to become. There aren't words to describe it.

The corporate headquarters should be truck bombed.

While I share your hatred of Monsanto, just saying such a thing these days can have you "disappeared", and don't expect the "armed forces" to protect you, but that's another issue altogether.

If Obama had balls as soon as Seal team 6 got done with Osama he would have sent them after Monsanto, many of their executives should be tried for crimes against humanity and a mountain of other charges or he could just send the FBI after them, but that will never happen when they are in the white house writing food and agriculture policy. This used to be known as fascism, now it's called business as usual..

[Corporate Avenger]

If you're going to vote for him anyway, why would he? At least vote against him.

Who said I was? And who should I vote for? Nobody that isn't a corrupt pawn has any chance, if everyone voted for Ron Paul he'd still lose or be assassinated. This country has lost it's chance to change things through elections, there's one way left, but it won't happen when most people support the elite bastards or are just too busy too be aware of what's going on.

[hadit]

Who said I was? And who should I vote for? Nobody that isn't a corrupt pawn has any chance, if everyone voted for Ron Paul he'd still lose or be assassinated. This country has lost it's chance to change things through elections, there's one way left, but it won't happen when most people support the elite bastards or are just too busy too be aware of what's going on.

Then you shouldn't vote. If you can't in good conscience support any of them, don't. Or, write in Ron Paul.

[302Riz]

I was ignorant of GMO's a few years ago. Now that I know the truth about GMO's, I'm horrified of it. The FDA and monsanto are in bed together knowing full well that their foods are killing and poisoning people. The executives in the FDA and Monsanto need to be held accountable for their actions.

[jwreck]

Then you shouldn't vote. If you can't in good conscience support any of them, don't. Or, write in Ron Paul.

My question is how can you in good conscience vote for Romney or Obama?

[Zordar]

Don't ask silly questions. He doesn't have a conscience.

[hadit]

Don't ask silly questions. He doesn't have a conscience.

Polite chuckles to prevent embarrassment, like when a 5 year old tells his first joke, but irrelevent.

[86Dùde]

Yup, I used to have trouble deciding who was the worst, but after learning how Monsanto is killing for profit, poisoning the world by force, and forever fucking up mother nature, I realized they take the cake. Monsanto is basically a very well funded terrorist organization, and a very smart one, and one that makes Al-Qaeda look like amateurs, while Al-Qaeda dreams about killing Americans by the boatload, Monsanto is doing it. And they do things very discreetly, notice you almost never hear there name mentioned in the mainstream media.

And yes, they own Obama as they did Bush, and they'd own Romney too. It makes me wonder why so many people believe the government is so corrupt and bad, yet don't spend a second to find out why, they just believe government automatically equals evil or something. You gotta look at the reasons why, fluck, the white house is full of big time criminal Wall st. bankers, and Monsanto exec's, is it any surprise why not one banker has gone to jail much less even be prosecuted? Or why Obama has continued to allow Monsanto and other bio-tech monsters to poison the nation? They won't even allow us freedom of choice, fighting like rabid dogs to keep GMO labeling laws from taking effect. I mean fluck, if a company believes in their product you'd think they'd be proud to advertise it, not keep it's inclusion in foods a secret. I didn't sign up to be a lab rat, yet that's what our government has allowed us all to become. There aren't words to describe it.




While I share your hatred of Monsanto, just saying such a thing these days can have you "disappeared", and don't expect the "armed forces" to protect you, but that's another issue altogether.

If Obama had balls as soon as Seal team 6 got done with Osama he would have sent them after Monsanto, many of their executives should be tried for crimes against humanity and a mountain of other charges or he could just send the FBI after them, but that will never happen when they are in the white house writing food and agriculture policy. This used to be known as fascism, now it's called business as usual..

And had I not met you I'd have never thought about it.

[Corporate Avenger]

And had I not met you I'd have never thought about it.

Since the media is silent on what is being done to us, all we're left with is word of mouth..