[deMolay]

It has been reported here before that China already has thousands of workers in Africa. http://www.spiegel.de/international/wor ... 24,00.html

[Roy]

Nice find. Thanks for posting.

Sounds like the paradigm of rich investors mining resources where ever they can continues.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')hat's because land, which is extremely fertile in some regions, is inexpensive on the impoverished continent. Payne's land fund pays $350-500 per hectare ($140-200 per acre) in Zambia, about a tenth the price of land in Argentina or the United States. For a small farmer in Africa, the average yield per hectare has remained unchanged in 40 years. With a little fertilizer and additional irrigation, yields could quadruple -- and so could profits.

[outcast]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('deMolay', 'I')t has been reported here before that China already has thousands of workers in Africa. http://www.spiegel.de/international/wor ... 24,00.html

[Pretorian]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Roy', 'I')'m sure yields and profits could grow. But at what cost to the small farmers in Africa?

[Pretorian]

PS $350-500 per hectare is REALLY expensive price for a land like that, especially considering geography and stable anarchy in that region.

[eastbay]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Roy', 'N')ice find. Thanks for posting. Sounds like the paradigm of rich investors mining resources where ever they can continues. $this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')hat's because land, which is extremely fertile in some regions, is inexpensive on the impoverished continent. Payne's land fund pays $350-500 per hectare ($140-200 per acre) in Zambia, about a tenth the price of land in Argentina or the United States. For a small farmer in Africa, the average yield per hectare has remained unchanged in 40 years. With a little fertilizer and additional irrigation, yields could quadruple -- and so could profits.

[deMolay]

Yah the Chinese Benevolent Society. http://www.boston.com/news/world/africa ... cekeepers/

[deMolay]

Chinese Troops in Zimbabwe? http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world ... 11796.html

[deMolay]

The Chinese Communist Benevolent Society would never never disenfranchise poor African Proletariat. Must be lies. http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=15036

[outcast]

Afraid American hegemony might finally be upstaged? If you're going to criticize a country for something, fine as long as it is consistant and applied to all countries who engage in such activities, otherwise its just hypocracy and in some cases even racist.

[deMolay]

Ha Ha Ha.

[deMolay]

The Communist Chinese Benevolent Society working for the African Proletariat. http://news.mongabay.com/2005/0420x-tina_butler.html

[dorlomin]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('deMolay', 'C')hinese Troops in Zimbabwe? http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world ... 11796.html

[Pretorian]

Chinaman in Madagascar, biodiversity haven:

[outcast]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pstarr', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('outcast', 'A')fraid American hegemony might finally be upstaged? If you're going to criticize a country for something, fine as long as it is consistant and applied to all countries who engage in such activities, otherwise its just hypocracy and in some cases even racist.

[bodigami]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('outcast', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('deMolay', 'I')t has been reported here before that China already has thousands of workers in Africa. http://www.spiegel.de/international/wor ... 24,00.html

[bodigami]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('outcast', 'A')fraid American hegemony might finally be upstaged? If you're going to criticize a country for something, fine as long as it is consistant and applied to all countries who engage in such activities, otherwise its just hypocracy and in some cases even racist.