Glad corrosive Ethiopia

The largest Christian countries of the Black continent, Ethiopia again, as a quarter century on the verge of unprecedented famine, but the rich world is not rushing to help, these days, warned the UN food agency FAO. Rains have bypassed the second year in succession the entire Sahel region, from the Atlantic to the Red Sea. FAO experts calculated that in Africa today, due to climate change, a modest investment in agriculture, corruption and low tide of foreign aid, over 50 million starving people. Only in Ethiopia 12 million people until the next harvest in the spring will have nothing to eat: child mortality is increasing in record, told the London "Independent". Smashing Photos malnourished Ethiopian children are once again started touring the world, but developed today have the same sensibility as the 1985th when the world's rock stars, organized movement of "Live Aid" and collected over 150 million pounds for the half-starving in Ethiopia.

Namely, the global economic crisis and last year's jump in food prices on the world market, have changed the priorities dojučerašnjih donors. Instead of attachment of UN funds to help najgladnijim countries, rich markets mercilessly cheap African fields there to grow food for their needs. Hectare of fertile land in Podsahari now cost up to thousands of U.S. dollars in Brazil fits about 6,000 dollars, in Great Britain 100 acres of arable land is sold for 18,000 dollars, while in Germany its Price 22.000 dollars, transmits Bi-Bi-Si.

Unsure whether to have enough food with their country, wealthy investors from Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Kuwait, Iran and the West - these thousands of acres rented on fertile land in Africa for 99 years. Group dalekovidih Saudi investor has recently presented the royal palace in Riyadh unique gift from the African soil - Saudi rice grown in fields rented in Ethiopia!

"Lack of food in Africa is beginning to threaten the stability of the state. Acute hunger that spreads is the result of economic reforms dictate that the Black Continent eighties 20th century imposed the World Bank and IMF. Former exporters of food, now on his knees ... "Non-governmental experts warn Auckland Institute from the USA.