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Players wherever i go in the city everything seems to be about developing hunger and poverty are to be eradicated by any means necessary. For the field being government the solution is to invite foreign investors. To get by with a little bit like this and i think it will yeah but if it gets to the light. Yes there are many lessons in how we think that that a lame is that all about that it will be investment and that somehow that yes again known as that focus ought to go by the output chop that thought it was a gimmick if you can claim 3 minutes you know you can about you know its just diplomatically to be investment to be so much you can be sure to come about to one. Of the call from the government is heard in the Luxury Hotels of the city i meet International Business people inventors looking for opportunities the hot topic on everyones lips is farmland what they call the new green gold. So you. Do not want to. See. The heat. When i came here i 1st went to Investment Office they said that they were very keen to have Foreign Investment here to stimulate business and also to improve their Foreign Exchange alex. Commercial operation i could see that it was suitable for what i wanted to do here great rainfall. Good soils and your really interesting situation its just good to give it a go. Investors bringing money to a poor country might be good but what happens to the local farmers when the investors arrive. Knowing nothing about the country im pretty lost. But i get to know an environmental journalist dealing with the land issues. See no reason for this is a big commissioned by the moment ive been on the center of. It means damage on the road ecological system of the park and its never reported on the media and the things that for us to miss i think it is another big disaster because you cant recover that for us to buy any museums maybe for the next 500 years. Whatever there is for thailand in ethiopia youll find none do for us theres. That isnt the mines i have heard a lot of reports from western region. Now i want to see it was my own eyes what exactly is going on. Argo allows me to join him on his investigative trip to the gunbarrel our region far away in western iraq. After 2 days of driving we finally reached umbrella for ages this region has been an isolated corner of ethiopia. Somehow it reminds of forgotten world still untouched by modern civilisation. But now things are changing. Thank you. London it will come because it was going to get a little it is a much uglier chart and cylinder seem to fit their modest level of knowledge he has a much limited big target on it and that hell end up going to have a look in mind. When to visit what is a myth what is emma shouted and what is it met that much again give me a kick you know is it ok i dug. Out of the theater when i watch a video so the card 1000 flip while it was on a letter. Remove the scope of the game and ask because beginning with that they are going to be a good. Thank you you mean how can i do anything pee i think it will at 43 and in attacking and. I sat down with the little insignia to which if you look at the top i simply eat this in my aluminum. By left only dividing the. Indian a bit lately in the summers here. It was downhill getting. Into the learning and to many than can be i hope monotony in hell continuing in the canonical name but meet my songs. Leaving the farmer we follow the new road. We drive deeper into the heart of gum bella and reach ethiopias Largest National park the park covers over 5000 square kilometers stretching all the way to south sudan and is the habitat of many endangered species this enormous area is also home to Indigenous People living off of small farming fishing and hunting the dream means to expand this to saddam cells have done. To make this park the 2nd to the 7 getting park in the i think that now. This is dumbbell region. There is a National Park in the middle here. That is full of many species why let him out. And there is a bridge that. Investors coming to come bail out to be given to land so what do you do now not to do this and i did my question quickly as soon as possible so that the then investors can not be looked at it in the center of the park so this is what were doing but who knows as the project come from the federal i were and maybe we can we dont know but the seed we are trying our best. This is where we have now to now. The park official omar is worried that his small staff cant control the vast area of the park. A few hours later we discover that his concerns appear to be justified. Net. Net. Hugh. At a junction there was a road sign a Company Named saudi star. What we saw was very disturbing. I wondered why the Saudi Stock Company hes after in that case. Is expanding into the National Park. So would seriously damage the white the knife and the left of center kind of. Thinking and playing and. Cutting and. Cutting and. Cutting up. To. The cut. In the regional capital argyll goes out alone to find information about the governments plans for the National Park and the saudi star company. The local Security Police find out that our guy was asking around and they arrest him. The entire night our guy was interrogated at the police headquarters. Early in the morning he was released and ordered to leave dumbbell immediately he is told if you care about your security dont ever come back. There were opinions. Done for me. Is that it would take a very long to get any jail time she would just let me go in the future. To get as a. Sunni and go there. I feel some kind of fear in most places particularly in rootlessness they cannot understand you are a journalist that cannot understand you have a right to it says the Government Policies they cannot understand so it is you job and only way theyre trying to create a sense of fear and. A serious warning and. In that condition you feel that you might inductance in jail might be attended to by someone ok then run away from the place. The 1st. Argyll was lucky to make it out of dumb bella but for him this story is too important to drop. The gun bill ive been a part of can mathematica. Design a cover of the particle night southeast given a shot. Thus limited only a mature look at no official you want to cut i get my new challenge of you know when you. Look at my never china. Nursery. School. d during the day for me into eightys about 400000 people died and almost every family does the luftwaffes. But the hunger has not disappeared but a 1000000 or so people are still dependent on for date for their survival. Now in verses from all over the world that are coming here to get to farmland. If it does in time i had a culture a land is taken away from our farmers and crops are exported they maybe even more hunger. Before hardly any International Investors cared about farmland in africa so why are they so interested now. Searching for answers i go to the Global Financial centers in new york the largest conference for agricultural investors is held. I let myself in through the back door and once you get it there so not so famous american bankers why do you rob banks because thats where the money and societies are and in some ways thats why people invest negative because now theres money in the u. S. You can make a profit. And i could culture in a way he probably couldnt 1020 years ago. But things changed around the middle of the 2000 was when we had a big spike in food prices. And the reasons why the present Heart Disease is on the demand side we have more population going to 9000000000 a lot of need a man commute of asia out of china and on the supply side you know there are questions about how much for thailand is available in parts of the world in particular the heavily populated parts of east asia of europe and other areas. I am. And whats changed for 2008 is that we seem Institutional Investors with pensions funds Insurance Companies private equity funds hedge funds are now starting to look at agriculture as as a as a real asset something tangible which is a good sort of value good place invest money in the same way as they could before a commercial real estate or a rock forestry. As it turns out the rush for the green gold is reaching every corner of the planet International Investors will soon control over 55000000. 00 hectares of farmland an area larger than the size of germany most affected are the poorest countries such as ethiopia. Saudis star has big plans for them bella. The Saudi Arabian companies preparing to farm an enormous area. And theyve already come far. Theyve come really far. To get on with the story we must return to the farm so. Were happy to see. The owner billionaire alla muti has a longstanding interest in ethiopia but investigating Land Investments in ethiopia is dangerous. With his arrest and dumbbell a freshness mind argyll has fears about the government. But as a foreigner making you feel but i grew Cultural Development i could contact the company. Navy ship building this was it and yes so the story. Before we start you know is just to get some confidentiality. Which may not be disclosed to some of those they made quiet those fish out on the ship at all. And so yes. This is you know 1000. And this one exists it is 2000 that they are no sanction to city 1000 a day that this one is 4000 a day that saw totality to become 10000 if that so of course all of that clearly got to vittie of this here that almost all of it so this is it is. There and the same time the fact that its now and want to stretch it was in the 6 months this is. It would be fine i was. Just. Expired and the. It was the government is to provide us some moral on this or that we can expand this. We are lucky the manager grants permission to visit the farm a gun battle. Arriving at the farm area we risk ordered by the Company Security service. You know saudi started that culture tomato plants to be listening. To compass. And try and do travel company the Company ProvidesServices Like food Service Clinic service for the few good working here we have a football field people do football kates like they are in near future also again will have to mean pool like that so this is a very nice place where people are living freely not scared the security is good then the health care good and the Living Standard is very good in the europa standard. All the camps facing the teams they are designed in good way done by you to just come and he dropped. So what was here before you started. It was simply. Forest when i say forests not like this one of. But you see this fiercely populated oh that was clipped and if you noticed. Production. You get the brown rice and but on is it moved and you know well get by trace. And thats going out of the polished but this one is only one of the. Last isnt it is very expensive and you will export from this line yes. For the night we were given a guest room at the farm compound but we dont sleep very well the idea that a famine struck country should export rice is just too strange. You know. This all. And euphemia once the project is completed and then theres the corpus did you feel something not only in 100. 00 films but. For something for the mankind that something gives you comfort. There there are not issues which we fly being the. Displacement of people. Taking place. There is not much. People living much of the villages that insight yes. The People Living inside what there. Must have been effect and then what may yet have been taken. To be a. Saudi stars operating on the legal permits awarded by the government but to enable this development the government is a victim the local people from the land. On your walks are Indigenous People whove been living in the area for hundreds of years. We need to find out what happened to them i know. I know. That. The most difficult piece to break through the world of science. Most people are too afraid of the government must be free to have problems. And their fear is justified. But what you because there is any top of mind and spice. Just pick up against the Land Investments youll be granted us on to development and running the very quickly. Finally argo manages to find people willing to talk to us. Them a bit. Of it which he did you took the model. You want to take it why no callignee. Well you know what it. Would be done well. Leave you to your god. Given glorious but you. Can give me time to get. Well known on a woman. What a turn or. I want to become one of. What do you think he. Will tell you. What if they are down here. And. Garbagey by you. Know he can come by in my mind and i hear paul. Who could walk. Ok paul can hear me york at the top and im the Mountain Time of year marking the band with and then i can make a grown man variable a new to me a good day at the courtship the more difficult to the very car i want to come by whom betty. Eat. All over the o. P. s Small Farmers are being forced off their land and moved to new villages one and a half 1000000 people are about to be evicted. The government calls the forced relocation villages ational treating new villages the official reason is that the locals can only benefit from Development Programs that provide people with Clean Water Health care school and food aid if they live in the villages. The Major Development program in the area is a program called p. B. S. Right beside the saudi star farm we find one of those new villages the only one who dares to speak with us is a local government official. If the should go but im not an only due to my model and because im cannot industry i can only go and just yes i will and then you saw it from that article coming on under both oh no come to that that im doing been. Forgotten youre human and im bored as i dont im not ability to each element. And so if you dont were doing a pretty good guess what you were does it doesnt i just feel no need to know dont. All im not good at it and. In the new villages we find empty bags on the ground. The local farmers whove lost their land now need food aid to survive. Seems hard to believe that these relocations are about helping people. In a. Way good about and who are no more need to be than women dark and shell come and theyre going to get on good you and theyre going to bombard you a lamp or get one that you one will go on with the you. Know. Got him a good deal of only get quotable and you get you dont dont need to deal with it you bought the who dont need you but a young male would have been. Around ruin a veteran or wanted you to. Come by lemon antitobacco. Going on here when im going to a local mall when he. Could get conveyed on the depth of dont want to admit to it in antarctica. But were going to temperature be going to take over again more in more moment time to time rick i know where lorne a good idea to tell you have when i get home. But most of the wall. Were not meant to but only deployed here to walk. Among the yet it only good poker with one of them on a one year where. The Development Programme p p s protection of basic services is meant to help the poorest. The intention is great but it appears as if the thiel being Government Income bella is exploiting the Development Program to clear land for the internet. Investors. The p. B. S. Program is funded by the us the European Union and the world bank. The world bank is the Worlds LargestDevelopment Bank and is financed by tax money. The mission of the bank is to end extreme poverty and build prosperity. In ethiopia the world bank has put over 2000000000. 00 into the p. B. S. Program. The world bank is engaged in many countries that have institutional weaknesses that have ethnic tensions that have Big Development challenges and thats why were there ultimately. I think development often involves trade offs and Many Development aspects to come with costs. People should not be disadvantaged by by a project whether they own the land all they dont own. The form thing is to make sure that those projects are televisions qualities way without jeopardising environments to make sure that we protect people and in fact benefit society at large without necessarily creating new reserves. In ethiopia 3000000. 00 people already depend on food aid to survive now the Development Program seems to be creating even more hunger. How can the Small Farmers survive when theyve lost their land. More food aid. But. Theyre weird but. Recently here was that. On an up and. Down as that and. Now i have a generation or 2 with him and. Our dog on his groundbreaking story now the challenge is to find an editor who dares to publish. Hundreds of Land Investors flood into the field via. But are they all the same. To find out i traveled to another corner of this beautiful and fertile country. Through. The most this one looked right. Up to. The thread. So then i went yeah you know. Where the green is good you would be a lot of great. Yeah. But i dont know. If the 2 days are really. 3. But if you want very dangerous try to. Spend your time looking at the growth side of the road. The land that we took initially had been used 20 years before by the state farm system but they had abandoned it because they said its too dry to grow crops so we were the 1st people to plow in that area. If i can just point out across the way yeah. There is a neighbor of ours here hes also a local person. He has. No infrastructure and much no machinery. But what he does do is follow his crop very closely and he does everything at the right time and you see hes also got a very good crop now id like to just show you this call just here. The person the farmer who has this is somebody who lives in i do so but theyre not following their crop closely theyre what we call an investor they come perhaps once a year to look at their crops the result of that is that we have a lot of this week this is called i said grass weed its called asking garbo literally means no bread what we need is more of the mentality of the pharma rather than the investor people who are committed to growing crops following their crops having that competitive instinct wanting to find something which increases the production. One of the things theyre very keen on these people who are having export crops in order to increase prices changed now we havent gone down that route i mean were we to save imports. Which virtues this. Is really and. Yes sir yes ok and look be there ready now and the others are almost ready so i mean if you can come on wednesday and. Thursday night you come thats good and also your good good i think thats very nice no problem with that and thats a good 1000000 issue. O. T. Politics. Keep learning march to reality wait a 2nd we want the whole picture perfect so set up make ideas shift deliver us. From measure to reality to cryptocurrency your top picks for live in an ever changing Digital World lets start going to devise a showmance. Shift. On t. W. On this some of the 7 percent talk about issues that. Influence the way behind the. Kind of new kind is innocent question. Jennifer mean fines. Pretrial detention. And less human rights group. 300. 31st Street School in the. First clue less. Than betty shores of grand moment arrives join the arena tango on her journey back. In our interest your judgment. Entering into tang returns home. 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