Africa’s Contemporary Food Insecurity

Nkwazi Mhango

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The contribution works toward achieving its mentality-changing goals by essentially providing Afrikentication lessons radiating principally around the theme: Making African education relevant to African liberation and progress. The linchpin of the book is that we Africans truly need to cease dangling uselessly and reclaim our authentic roots if we have to independently move forward. This is an objective we clearly cannot correctly achieve when our intellectuals and universities (among others) who are supposed to be furnishing our liberation movements with sane policy and thought-leadership do continue in the same old colonial way of sheepish ‘theorising’ that excessively indulges in obliterating genuine African perspectives. Indigenous African education is the way to go! An inevitable rethinking in education, culture, and religion in Africa is recommended, basing on innovation and critical thinking which are sure highlights of communalism, which is a defining feature of the African way of life. The book thus harps on the need to recentralise African values and philosophy in the freedom and governance of the continent, as well as stressing the dire need for unity and visionary, dedicated and patriotic leadership.

Sujets

• Ethnic Studies
• Social Science
• Sociologie, société et politique

Informations

• Publié par: Mwanaka Media and Publishing Pvt Ltd
• Date de parution: 18 septembre 2023
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781779314796
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 2 Mo

Extrait

Africa’s Contemporary Food Insecurity Self-inicted Wounds through ModernVeni Vidi Vici and Land Grabbing

Nkwazi N. Mhango

AFRICA’S CONTEMPORARY FOOD INSECURITY: SELF-INFLICTED WOUNDS THROUGH MODERNVENI VIDI VICIAND LAND GRABBING Nkwazi N. Mhango

Mwanaka Media and Publishing Pvt Ltd, Chitungwiza, Zimbabwe * Creativity, Wisdom, and Beauty

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Publisher:Mmap Mwanaka Media and Publishing Pvt Ltd 24 Svosve Road, Zengeza 1 Chitungwiza, Zimbabwe [e-mail] [e-mail] https://www.mmapublishing.org www.africanbookscollective.com/publishers/mwanaka-media- and-publishing https://facebook.com/MwanakaMediaAndPublishing/ Distributed in and outside N. America by African Books Collective [e-mail] www.africanbookscollective.com ISBN: 978-1-77931-484-0 EAN: 9781779314840 © Nkwazi N. Mhango2023 All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, mechanical or electronic, including photocopying and recording, or be stored in any information storage or retrieval system, without written permission from the publisher DISCLAIMER All views expressed in this publication are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views ofMmap.

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Acknowledgements As ever, I exceptionally and unlimitedly acknowledge my wife Nesaa who contributed immensely to writing this tome. Her unconditional and unwavering support has always been second to none. Girl, you are the bomb! I hugely acknowledge my friends and mentors, Professors Sean Byrne and Jessica Senehi of the University of Manitoba who have been so instrumental to remind me about not to stop writing apart from contributing some ideas as far as writing is concerned. Jessica, apart from being my PhD best supervision, has been very instrumental and key, especiallyvis-a-vis how to tell the story nicely. From these two professors and friends, I learned how to use a simplified language in telling my stories. Willy Mutunga, former Kenya’s Chief Justice and Presidentof the Supreme Court of Kenya and Cde Pius Msekwa, current Vice Chancellor of the Moshi Co-operative University (MoCU) and the Mbeya University of Technology and Science (MUST), former Vice Chancellor of the University of Dar es Salaam (UDSM), former National Vice Chairman of the Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM), National Executive Secretary of former the Tanganyika African National Union (TANU); and the CCM, Member of Parliament for Ukerewe constituency in Mwanza region; Former Chair of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA), Deputy Speaker, and later Speaker of Parliament of the United Republic of Tanzania, author of several books, papers and articles, and my co- author have always kept me happy for the humour and views we share as scholars. Men, you are the bombs.  There is no way I can complete my acknowledgements without mentioning the name of my brothers, friends, and readers Sirili Akko, Tendai Mwanaka, my newest publisher who happens to trust me, Bruce Penner, Ike Bergen, Ray Loewen, and others for their

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unwavering support and trust. Our three babies too are superb and acknowledged for the crazy inquiries about when a new book is coming out.  Finally, I would like to acknowledge all academics, practitioners and readers who will pick up from where I ended in my quest for the decolonisation and detoxification of internalised external and internal colonisation of Africa.

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Acronyms BC CAR CAT CCM CEOs CIA CPA PACS DDT DRC EEA EEDPs EIDPs FAO FDI FUNDECOL GEF GEF GEF GEF GMF GMF GMT IFAD

IFIs IFPRI IMF

Before Christian Central African Republic Convention Against Torture Chama Cha Mapinduzi Chief Executive Officers Central Intelligence Agency Commonwealth Parliamentary Association Peace and Conflict Studies Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane Democratic Republic of Congo European Environmental Agency Economic Externally Displaced Persons Economic Internally Displaced Persons Food and Agriculture Organisation Foreign Direct Investment Fundación de Defensa Ecológica Ecuador Genetically Endangered Food Genetically Engineered Food Global Environmental Facility Global Food Facility Genetically Manipulated Food Genetically Modified Food Genetically Manipulation Technology International Fund for Agricultural Development International Financial Institutions International Food Policy Research Institute International Monetary Fund

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ISRIC

LDC MeTL MoCU MUST NAFDAC

PBDE RSF SCOUL SSA TANU TMC UAE UDSM UFCO UN UNEP US VIP WFP WMD WTO

International Soil Reference and Information Centre Less Developed Countries Mohamed enterprises Tanzania Limited Moshi Co-operative University Mbeya University of Technology and Science National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane Rapid Support Force Sugar Corporation of Uganda Limited Sub-Saharan Africa Tanganyika African National Union Transitional Military Council United Arab Emirates University of Dar Es Salaam United Fruit Company United Nations United Nations Environment Programme United States Very Important Person World Food Program Weapon of Mass Destruction World Trade Organisation

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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements .............................................................. iii

Acronyms................................................................................v

Abstract ................................................................................. x

Chapter One: Land Grabbing and Its Ramifications to Africa ................................................................................................ 1 i)Introduction ................................................................................. 1 ii)4Is Land leasing a Solution or a Bigger Problem?.......................... iii)Land Grabbing Is Land Colonisation ......................................... 7 iv)How Dire Ominous Is the Situation? ........................................ 13 v)Conclusion ................................................................................. 20

Chapter Two: Land Grabbing Defined ................................24 i)Introduction ............................................................................... 24 ii) Who Is To Blame?........................................................................... 25 ii)Land Means Everything ............................................................ 29 iii)........................... 33The Ambiguity and Slenderness of Definitions iv)36What Does the Real Situation on the Ground Say? .................. v)When Governments Become Culprits ......................................... 42 vi)Conclusion ................................................................................. 46

Chapter Three: History of Land Grabbing and How Africa Used to Feed Itself ............................................................... 52 i)52Historicity and Land Grabbing in Africa ................................. ii)............... 58Africa Needs to Aggressively Address Food Insecurity iii)63Land Grabbing and Food Insecurity..........................................

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Conclusion ................................................................................. 68

Chapter Four: Land and Food Production Are Interconnected and Interdependent .....................................73 i)The Connection between African/Humans and Land ............... 73 ii)81Land Centrality......................................................................... iii)Decolonization of Land Policies ................................................. 88 iv)Africans and Connection to Land.............................................. 92 v)Conclusion ................................................................................. 95

Chapter Five: The Extent to Which Countries Are Affected 99 i)Land Grabbing and Landlessness for the Hoi Polloi ................. 99 ii)Land Grabbing and Africa’s Future.......................................105 iii)Why Is the West Reticent?.......................................................111 iv)The Arrival of Emerging Powers and Their Ramifications on Land 115 v)Conclusion ............................................................................... 125

Chapter Six: Premature Commercialisation of Agriproducts ............................................................................................ 128 i)................................................128Africans Need to Think Twice ii)Africa Needs to Have Its Own Homespun Policies .................132 iii)Consumerism as a Harbinger of Development ..........................140 iv)The Promise of Fake Development...........................................148 v) Conclusion ...................................................................................... 157

Chapter Seven: Land Grabbing and Its Connection to Gender and Race ............................................................................. 161 i)Land Grabbing Ramifications and Intersectionality .................161 ii)Land Grabbing and Gender ....................................................171 iii)Land Grabbing and Genetic Modification Are Connected .......175

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iv)When the Cradle of Food Faces Food Insecurity ......................187 v) Conclusion ...................................................................................... 192

Chapter Eight: Land Grabbing and How GMFs Affect Africa Socially ............................................................................... 194 i)Land Grabbing and the Deaths of Indigenous Crops ...............194 ii)199Economic Effects ..................................................................... iii)Political Ramifications of the Introduction of GMFs in Africa 202 iv)Health Ramifications............................................................... 204 v)Conclusion ............................................................................... 211

References .......................................................................... 217 Mmap Nonfiction and Academic Series………………………256

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