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More than eight hundred Million People around the world are thanks to by extreme poverty and hunger. In Subsaharan Africa almost a quarter of the population is undernourished in spite of Government Development aid coming from industrialized countries and. Private businesses are now getting more and more involved in the fight against poverty. Responsibility has been shifted from the public sphere into the hands of corporations and in the market the corporations are the new. Saints the new Paladin Development in Food Security you know we just blow the whistle and they will come in and out and save us all. More and more major Western Banks and businesses are getting involved in Development Aid and theyre doing so with government support. In twenty fifty Member States at the Un General Assembly resolved to eliminate extreme poverty and hunger worldwide by twenty thirty with the help of the private sector. But does this new model of Development Aid work would it really benefit the needy or does it just serve corporate interests. We take a look at several examples in east africa kenya zambia and tanzania. Were about to visit a business in the kenyan capital nairobi that received support from prances state Development Aid agency a. F. P. Its subsidiary proposal and other European Development banks back to fund worth forty five Million Euros in to turn invested two Million Euros in the nairobi place business European Foods Africa. Development banks such as profile coke were originally set up to fight hunger and poverty but in this case state Development Funds mix with private capital and of being invested with a focus on financial returns. The Kenyan Company European Foods Africa sells ready made pizzas made by the german firm dr bird and imported from germany the business bought modern cold storage rooms with the money from the fund the Company Owner is a german who lives in nairobi six years ago stefan bell had the idea of selling frozen pizzas from germany in kenya. Because in a container normally arrive here in a container each container holds roughly Twelve Thousand pieces we store several different types here and deliver them to supermarkets and grocers in. Myriad of supermax. And to expand the company we now have to find more locations so we can supply more i was leaving when i was there for. The investor expects stefan beltre to expand but isnt it a ludicrous idea to support the marketing of frozen fast food with Development Aid money. More and more consumers in nairobi the switching to ready meals but only affluent customers can afford a doctor at competes or. If you computer is meant to drive frozen pizza or is definitely very expensive here compared to germany to get a pizza here costs around seven year olds eighty in germany i think they retail for two euros fifty to three euros because. The two Million Euros in Development Day money isnt supporting local production but the import of european goods destined for him a funny. Investment club is that the goal of the fun easy company our Investment Group is for us to attract the attention of other International Companies who might like to sell their frozen products through us and use our warehouses and distribution chains. Fatai longs. Notes and. It is this is not local Development Aid it doesnt support the economy in the individual country it supports businesses in germany or in europe its aid for Foreign Trade and i think Development Aid money is there to fight poverty strengthen state structures and support health care and education but the reality is that more and more supporting Foreign Trade. European Development Banks invest in private companies to improve Living Conditions especially in remote rural areas for example in zambia one of the worlds poorest countries people here have an average Life Expectancy of just fifty two in the northeast of the country a huge Oil Palm Plantation has been set up it measures twenty thousand hectares in total and also features a mill to obtain oil from the fruits the operation is run by zambias biggest agricultural and Food Processing company zambia. Thirty five Million Euros will loan to zambia by several Development Banks in europe including the german investment and Development Corporation d e g a subsidiary of the k F W Development bank zambia if used some of the money to found a subsidiary example. Is their project which do is in. Palm trees to produce is quick and. Started in late two thousand and eight. But we had our first necessity in december two thousand and eight. Some of the plants that we tried to plant in two thousand and nine. The plantation started off with major problems a consultant had recommended the wrong type of palm tree then it became clear that the soil was too moist for oil palms. The company had the water table lowered by one point two meters high expenditures for all this prepared to work were made possible by the learn from d e g. Why would d e g invest in such a dubious project. In some beef. Has been investing in zambia for years. Because of the name and sam beef is an important business in zambia as agricultural sector. Contributes to Food Security and Food Supplies in the country. You know and it generates employment in a marginal region and gives the people there an opportunity to work in the you know the sort of mention ill buy i think on im. Zandi from ploy six hundred workers on the Oil Palm Plantation during the harvest but only one hundred forty of them are employed year round everyone else is a seasonal worker. Critics say that for investment sums of such magnitudes the gains in development should be significantly higher. Than when you ask d. G. About such projects they always say its a great example of good Development Aid they never address the criticism they just brush it off. Many questions have been posed to the German Parliament about d. G. s role twenty seven organizations submitted a petition calling for d. E. G. To be required to publish information about its involvements and loans. Thats the basic problem with the g is that its a black box we dont know what it gets up to because it doesnt publish its not accountable we only find out about d. G. Activities through n. G. O. S or journalists who do research on site or through concerned citizens who go public and thats how we find out that somethings gone wrong with projects that she for. Doing it since the first of january two thousand and fifteen the igi has published its investments and the names of its clients on its website you can find a lot of information there about our investment that youre on but xampp doesnt show up on the d. G. Website research by the anti hunger n. G. O. S ffion showed that ten Million Euros flowed into the project the d. G. A. Only confirmed that after queries but its still unclear what environmental and social standards xampp are made heres to the lonely is also ecologically controversial four hundred and thirty Thousand Palms were planted in the swampy area as the farm manager proudly reports. If local authorities feel is nothing we did not stamp on it in here it was tested. And then i dont think we will put trees if you want to break through so then it does be a hundred forty three just one hour but it is quite a number of days that will put around where there were no trees every year in december more trees are planted the idea being to continue until all twenty thousand hectares of full draining the marsh land releases large amounts of Carbon Dioxide which negatively impacts the climate but the plantation isnt just ecologically questionable event huge Palm Oil Plantations are sponsored with loans from d e g there are charges that people have been driven off the land that promises havent been kept such as building schools and clinics. Before the plantation was created there were forty five families living around the lake xampp arm resettled them thats the official term at first the three village elders were reluctant to talk about it on camera. Gary never got on the boat if we reset down with the village chief when sampan came to discuss whether we would agree to have them here you are awesome but we agreed in the hope that our situation would improve as a result. He didnt really drive a car when. Chief copper who officially distributes the land was given a tractor but the population is still waiting for the business to make good on its promises the clinic sampan promised eight years ago the Police Station the school. After some hesitation the village elders express their dissatisfaction. Doubt the car calling the new school was never built you know we only have the old state school here you can see it over there none of the things sampan promised have been built not the school not the clinic not the Police Stations who dont like to wear body station. The plantation manager confirms the plans for a clinic and a school but he wont talk about it on camera sam beef management also refuses to grant us an interview. The company says it will answer in writing once it has all the facts but that still hasnt happened. What does the lending d. G. Have to say. When it was business with less far as we know no promises were made the question always is to what extent should a company that pays taxes to the state also invest the dition early in this social infrastructure in the sense of china important to invest young. I thought the second man effort to talk with the we want to see progress before we die and especially us three. To four. Spatially we really we want to see that our children are getting ahead. That weve left something good for them i shall call for more for more are now obvious. Companies arent required to build clinics and schools but in regions with poor infrastructure thats what they often promise so as to gain access to land sampan isnt the only farm run by zombie fish in the north west of the country the company has another large farm on ten thousand hectares the village of limbaugh is close by a land conflict has been smoldering here for more than a decade fifty families were forced out by the previous as a company. The villagers fought back during their protest march the fence of the plantation was destroyed. Francis come under armed neighbor were arrested and spent ten days in Police Custody initially they were to be sentenced to five years in prison but the zambian president intervened and they were released however they had to pay a fine of seven thousand euros for the broken fence. To s. F. But i wouldnt give a grown food for anything to give him for the food for the toad to eat nothing so i thing you. Only. Well we need to go back to the line there was nowhere to run so if you let your land is given like twice what do you do about this stuff you know i miss you dont you one ward the there was a situation in the past where the local populations claimed it had access to this land and was allowed to use it on that and those needs can do often doesnt even fit in fine since in this case it was Government Land it was legal for a zombie forget this farm and this concession some beef farm deforms and so on hide not. The Village Community took the case to the high court in two thousand and four which decided in its favor. But the company appealed and won. According to the constitution the Small Farmers are entitled to the land their farming but the government sold it anyway the families are facing ruin. Some couldnt cope with the years of waiting for a decision the elders lament that eleven villages have committed suicide since that time. Or together fifty blueblood three really live in built. And you should watch one particular instance these are if its really true that eleven people committed suicide then thats really sad but theres enough land in the region and plenty of Development Opportunities for the land so that these Small Farmers have other options and they dont have to lay claim to land where the Supremes Court decided that its for the company to use that was to. Remove the names of. The villages of member cant just go and use other land. The fertile land is taken up by the plantation and the other surrounding areas are forested it would take a lot of work and money to clear the. Development aid intended to combat hunger and poverty has worsened the situation here. The villages are putting their hope in the district administration. We are still negotiating with the fans want them to give up this part of the land which they do not use so that local people can also use that plant to grow their crops now if we just all of those people where are they going to go. So we just loved it when winston wishing we all benefit the assumption there and im sure youve heard this term is that Public Private partnerships are a win win we will a fair because everybody gets something out of it theres money and of course a bit of profits but at the same time you get efficiency and you get services and you know Everybody Wins but in fact there is no evidence of this. On balance the residents of member all are the losers with this investment and in other places too European Development banks are issuing loans to those who already have money strengthening the already strong now theres an Investment Fund that wants to combat hunger and poverty. The Africa Agriculture and trade Investment Fund for short the German Ministry of Economic Cooperation and development invested the biggest share forty five Million Euros of taxpayers money along with twenty million from the k F W Development bank and twenty million from dontcha bank the funds worth climbed two hundred twenty five Million Euros. It invested around nine Million Euros in the company agra vision in zambia. One of its farms is located in central salmiya and is one of the biggest in the country the Fund Prospectus advertises that are to raises local incomes and therefore Food Security. The money was used to set up a large soy plantation. But here too the land was not empty some farmers were relocated. The majority of the land was forest it is being cut down. On my right hand side behind it you can see some of the natural natural bush forest that was so these particular fields were cleared from that bush. And to do that to carrots and make it just ready to accept planting you probably talking three thousand dollars a hit. In addition to the cost of clearing there were additional expenses of five thousand three hundred euros perfect for irrigation facilities pipes electricity cables and roads the business was able to expand the amount of Agricultural Land that could be irrigated by a factor of seven to have a speed year of possible here in zambia but that can only be realized if the water from the rainy season is captured so it can be used to irrigate the fields in the dry season. Thats why the company has built a large reservoir and a pump station but what about the benefit for the local population how many jobs were created with the nine million euro investment. We run this state with with a workforce of one hundred forty seven and thats all inclusive so in the fields as such we probably you know weve only got a workforce off if before you work on the two thousand eight Hundred Acres so you very mechanized in relationship to maybe some other crops like tobacco or Something Like that weve very very mechanized lower labor imports. So i would say that the portion of labor to the costs is is negligible as for us and compared to the cost of herbicide of the cost of fertilizer and the cost of water. Thomas duva of the Investment Funds board of directors is pleased with the success most songs of. These hundred and thirty your hundred forty jobs are really secure its a stable business that gets into the people are earning money and thats the late in the local economy as a result thats actually. Coming to. The sawyer farm as a jobs engine its not really a convincing argument when the farm was set up the goal was to create sixteen hundred jobs. Will be agra vision is far from the german lenders believe theyre raising the incomes of the local population with their investments there by fighting malnourishment in poverty. The arctic fund kinds to be popular with religious institutions orders and pension funds. They want to invest their pastors pensions in profitable ways but the fund wont reveal the investing institutions citing banking secrecy instead. Most other investors are not made public. And the funs location also raises questions. Theyre fun is based in luxemburg the German Government said that quite openly enters spawns to a question for me theres no tax on profits there in times when were discussing the Panama Papers thats very interesting you go there because you dont want to pay tax. Luxembourg is well known as a tax haven. But the German Development minister doesnt see a problem. Kind of solution stop to it there are no middleman structures and money doesnt get lost but i owe that to the german taxpayer i would have had to fund is registered in luxembourg. Ill take a look at what kind of model it is and go see if anything needs changing. The minister evidently doesnt know the r. T. F. Investment fund. Even though his ministry put forty five Million Euros of taxpayers money into it under his predecessor. And another tax haven is involved chhobi aggravation is now part of a Company Whose official headquarters are in marriage as an island in the indian ocean known for its lax tax laws. The first thing you should look at with every investment you make is that the company pays tax locally if its based in nourishes that wont be the case because its a tax haven that business is trying to avoid paying tax for my. Father and i cant answer questions about Corporate Tax whether its due in zambia on the richest in any details he comes in in the time span for. If only a small amount of tax remains in the country zambia will continue to be unable to pay for public services. One particular imbalances created by the risk distribution of the are to fund tax payers alone bear the losses then its good if the fund makes a profit then the private investors collect profits are privatized losses are socialized the final savan thats the art of principle and that if. The german state is used here as a risk buffer for a company that wants to become the largest so in my eyes and weak supplier in Southern Africa dont have bank also benefits from this. Business for tool we know what were doing at if is a step ahead because its been around for five years now and it can demonstrate a solid investment portfolio since we have the first loan repayments this year will have new means to make new investments it shows investors that this kind of partnership can work on top of once in your income we taxpayers are paying up front so that the corporations can start making a profit right away and dont have to wait and i find this absolutely ill accept about. The Public Private Partnership Model obscures the fact that the interests of businesses and Small Farmers are by no means the same is Development Aid really there to support the biggest businesses in the market Agricultural Companies that fence off huge areas infringing on local peoples land use and rights of way be aggravation is done just that on another farm in western zambia triggering a conflict with the local population. Where people live decide. Now this Company Wants to fence off this area. So these people not have access to this water you so thats where the conflict is. Its not just access to water thats a problem access to the nearest clinic used to its obstructed by a fence. A few months ago a girl was bitten by a snake two villages wanted to take her to the clinic in somali farm but they werent allowed in. The division you guys were locked out here at the fence so we went to the gate over there but the guard wouldnt let as in he said no its late and the clinic was closed and i was sure that that wasnt the case because it was an emergency. The guard remained firm the men had to walk to a clinic further away it took them an hour and a half to walk there it was too long. When they arrived the girl was dying. Somali farm belongs to chill b. Aggravation the company that works with the r. T. If in vestment fund legally the company isnt required to let anyone on its property. But dont the investors have a moral responsibility. As its minus me is fun and i dont know about any death and its important to understand that the somali way farm wasnt funded by our to find out are many didnt go there doesnt need to go to him on some glutinous the sword is mine first and its also my understanding that this fence was needed to demarcate the property because there had been too much trespassing on the private land that would have harmed the agricultural production. Then on. The villages say they feel treated like slaves theyre suffering under the situation. If you had shoot him or sharon or. The girl left us just because of this family if the least gave us a small gate then we could get to the clinic faster instead we have to walk around the fence and take the long route to the other clinic. That has severe consequences for us and so we lost one of our own. Tories. This case shows that such Public Private Development Projects can in fact make things worse for the poorest of the poor. Does that was we know that places that dont have clinics or schools or roads that are built by the state and therefore accessible to all will not see development as started in the trunk and kept in the state is withdrawing more and more from its responsibility. Increasingly its private investors that are taking over the roles of the public sector. Zambia for example invites Foreign Companies to invest in the areas of Health Infrastructure and energy as well as agriculture. Zambian development agency. Banks on Public Private partnerships. Government doesnt just offer lands to big Agricultural Companies it also gives the investors additional tax relief. Henry succumb to runs the zambian Public Private partnership unit. What the business. Get as incentives. To import plant and missionary duty free no obvious businessman does a bigger floor serving from the point of view for going to its debts. And put up a factory and the good five years do that. And those who are going to enjoy thats free dividends. But due to profits after of. I think that one is a positive for when you decide to combine. The Companies Remain tax free for five years after theyve made their first profits. Zambia competes for investors with many other countries but these partnerships between african states and Global Corporations are unequal. The beneficiary governments are the only ones who really have to spell out in detail the policy changes that they will me and which of course are suggested to them strongly by the corporations and the dollar is in order to create an enabling environment for private sector investment. There are smaller businesses that also want to invest in african countries. Another project called develop demonstrates that. The three ps stand for Public Private partnership. Governments Program Supports Medium Sized Companies that want to do business with developing countries the German Company equal and herbes received one hundred thousand euros for example its one of fifteen hundred companies that have been supported with relatively small sums. Managing director rudolph brewer is visiting zanzibar where a spice farmer is showing him his plantation he grows fruit and vegetables for his own use on one hand to as he also grows nutmeg pepper cinnamon and lemon grass. Service is. Really oh my pick you know little bird that works with twenty five spice farmers in zanzibar radio one ali is one of them. He shows us how cinnamon is obtained from the bark of a tree it grows back after harvest. I do this is. This is cinnamon without the outer layer of bark thats extremely important because the bark contains bitter substances so when we export this to germany the quality has to be good that is without this great exterior layer how well it can be used for cinnamon chips and at the end its ground down you know to cinnamon powder. Food off brewer markets the spices and processes them in the sausages that he makes with the produce a group in germany you can only sell the organic spices in germany if theyre certified he uses d. G. Support to train the farmers in zanzibar so they can get the organic sit if occasion themselves. A consultant travels to zanzibar three times a year he brings the spice farmers microorganisms that provide the foundation for a special natural fertilizer. Its the we dont use fertilizers and pesticides in organic farming but we cant just do nothing we have to strengthen the plants. We have to stimulate nature in the spirit of homeopathy you know that gives us healthier crops. In darkness into the forest and theres a big demand for demeter products in the middle its an additional opportunity for our farmers here to produce the best possible spices and to obtain a proper price for them both sowing more. Compiles to become. The spice farmers have always worked without artificial fertilizers and pesticides but these biodynamic compost substances are new to them the advantage is they dont have to invest any capital. Its a big difference for me i wasnt familiar with some of the fertilizers but now my new colleagues have told me about thats Real Progress i mean to say dear family dont read to me about it when i might morgan it farming is better and more sustainable than other production methods that also require expensive fertilizers. Or kooky. Really moving you know. Organic farming that only requires whats already available on the plantation with vito we will now be able to get out. The farmer is climbing the tree to harvest nutmeg its important that they dont fall to the ground where they will rot. Before the partnership with rudolph the farmers maybe sell their spices to tourists thats changed because brewer agrees a guaranteed price with them in advance. Of god never going back before i joined this project my harvest and my earnings were very low. But now i earn twice as much and can lead a much better life for you how are you going to get a womans only. Rudolph below once the farmers to dry the spices so they can be exported quality standards are important for storage and sale the spice farmers are bringing in their pepper today so its moisture content can be measured. This batch isnt as dry as it should be. Well. Come i can turn a blind eye but it should be under twelve. The farmers get a good price for the pepper if its dry enough nine euros per kilogram the farmer is delivering more than one hundred kilograms today for which he ends nine hundred fifty euros. Our two days to go to school about the money to pay with school so we get more money when we see our product. So we have the. Only the people who have a good income can send their children to school here but in a society where thirty percent are illiterate even that is enormous progress. When a German Company is able to pay them better price because half of the funding for their project comes from the German Ministry for Economic Cooperation and development unlike other projects the principle here is that the farmers remain independent and get to determine for themselves what they grow where and how. Yeah the family of us as of organic it grow or if we think were seeing you know to develop nicely its. Nevertheless rudolph who hasnt come to zanzibar as a benefactor hes here is a businessman the Developer Program only supports german and european businesses with annual turnovers of at least a Million Euros and with at least ten employees this model only works in agriculture if the farmers produce for export the spice farmers on zanzibar are there for the exception the vast majority of agricultural businesses produce for the domestic market and dont benefit from such projects. Why not start from the fact that he is indeed a small scale producers who are the main actors and see what they need to do a better job of what theyre already doing so i know tentative rees we have in mood examples when youre good to go norma but not to my choice of Central Region tanzania. We have organized people we organized these small scale farmers who we organized by our our enjoy all throughout the building their own market. People when you harvest gold or silver the own producer said this market the range they decided for their prices when youre good at this center normally known as cube a work these small scale farmers reach was small scale farmers need access to land water and to markets. Then they can even supply cities with a population of more than a million. In africa thats still the reality seventy percent of food for the continents megacities comes from the surrounding areas. But at the moment Small Farmers can barely live off their earnings. If they organize they can negotiate better prices. With a bit of support they can set up warehouses for potatoes rice and maize. That way they are not forced to sell their produce right after the harvest to the first buyer who comes along. All of this helps them improve their income and feed their families better than Big Investments in huge farms. Its the corporations and the big trading countries who dominate the food system and hence have the power and they have the power because they are the ones who establish the rules they are the ones who also do the regulation the deck is really stacked in favor of the corporations and against the small scale producers who are actually the ones who feed the world. Small scale farmers free three quarters of the people on the planet two thirds of those who go hungry are small and landless farmers hunger usually strikes at the end of the season when the old harvest is used up and the new crops are not yet in Sight Solutions to remedy this such as the establishment of collectives were neglected in years gone by not least by state development date. These European Union and soon the ever much National Organizations if they want to reach solve the problems of poverty in developing countries they need to consult these groups or they need to come to the poor themselves because theyre organized into the unknown legal. The money theyre. Putting Small Farmers at the center that should be the main task if we are to get closer to the vision of a Global Society and eradicate hunger and poverty by twenty thirty. Development aid money influence by banks and corporations goes more to agricultural businesses and big farms then it seems unlikely that this crucial go will be reached. Can there be peace in afghanistan. 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