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Filed Under: Africa and the World
Tags: Addax Bioenergy • additional incomes for host countries • Africa • agribusiness • agricultural development • AgriSol Energy • agrofuels • American universities • Amnesty International • Amy Goodman • ancestral land • Argentina • biofuels • Brazil • Bruce Rastetter • budget allocations to agriculture • Burundi • CAPARO Renewable Agriculture Developments Ltd • China • civil society organizations • climate change • collection of timber • common good • conflict • country's opposition leaders • Crad-l • create jobs and infrastructure in poor countries • cut flowers • Democracy Now • democratic debate • displacement • displacement of small farmers • dividends • dramatically increase rice production and revenues • economic development • Emergent Asset Management • employment opportunities to poor countries • EmVest • Emvest Matuba • environmental devastation • Ethiopia • expansion of global acricultural land • expatriate employees • export commodities • fallow land • farming communities in Africa • farming projects • firewood • food insecurity • food security • foreign countries looking for cheap food • full repatriation of profits • Gambella • Global War on Terror • Goldman Sachs • Harvard • Howard Eugene Douglas • human rights violation • IMF • impoverishment • India • Indigenous people • infertile land • infrastructure • international development institutions • international investors • investment funds • investment in agriculture • investments in Tanzania • Iowa • Iowa Board of Regents • Iowa State University • irrigation • Jatropha • job creation • JP Morgan • Karuturi • Katumba • Kinyeti Development • lack of information in the public domain • land acquisition in Africa • land deals in Africa • land grabs • large endowment funds • large-scale investors • Mali • mass arrests • massacres of protestors • medicinal plants • Meles Zenawi • millenium development goals • Mishamo • Moulin Moderne du Mali • Mozambique • native populations • Oakland Institute • Office du Niger • OI Executive Director Anuradha Mittal • oleaginous crops • Olivier De Schutter • pension funds • Petrotech-ffn Agro Mail • Petrotech-ffn USA • Pharos Ag • political instability • political violence • Portugal • promote fair debate • promoting growth • protection against erosion • protection of watershed • providing military aid and training • public participation • Quifel International Holdings • refugee affairs • Refugee leaders • refugee settlements • repression • Republican Party • restrictions on foreign exhcange • right to food • rogue governments • royalties • Samana Dugu • Sierra Leone • smallholder farmers • socially responsible investments • Somalia • Special Investigation: Understanding Land Investment Deals in Africa • speculators • Spelman • squatters • Sudan deal • sugarcan • Summit Farms • system of rice intensification • Tanzania • Tanzanian authorities • tax revenues for governments • tax waivers • Terry Branstad • Texas • the Niger • the Nile • the Zambezi • threats of prison • timber industry • Timbuktu • Tony Blair African Governance Initiative • United Nations rapporteur • United States ambassador • unlimited water rights • unregulated land acquisitions • Vanderbilt • vegetable gardens • vertical integration • villagization process • water loss • Wikileaks cables • wild food • world hunger

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Filed Under: Haiti and Latin America
Tags: 2010 interview • amnesty • amputations • apartheid society • Aristide and the Endless Revolution • Aristide’s American Profiteers • Artibonite • child abuse • cholera epidemic • Christopher Columbus • CIA-backed coup • Clinton administration • Commission of Truth and Justice • Committee on Foreign Relations • Conseil Electoral Provisoire (CEP) • coup d’état-kidnapping of 2004 • Cuba • democracy • diplomatic passport • Durban • earthquake • economic exploitation • Evans Paul • eye surgery • Faculty of Medicine for Linguistics and Neuroanatomy • Fanmi Lavalas • filmmaker Raoul Peck • first democratically elected president • former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide • France • free and fair democratic elections • freedom of religion • French and American governments • French President Jacques Chirac • Geneva • Gerard Latortue • Haiti and Latin America • Haiti: No Leadership – No Elections • Haitian Constitution • Haitian elite • Haitian pigs • Haitian Truth and Reconciliation Commission • head of state • Honduras • impoverishment • InterAmerican Development Bank • Interim Electoral Commission • Iraq • Italy • Jacqueline Charles • Jean-Claude Duvalier • Johannesburg • Kreyol translation • Letter from President Aristide in November 2009 • Letters of resignation of Jean-Bertrand Aristide • liberation theology • Libya • logical fallacy • marginalization • Mary Anastasia O’Grady • Maryse Narcisse • media circus • mental slavery • Mexico • Miami Herald • minimum wage • mistranslation of letter of resignation • Ms. Lucy Komisar • Ms. Mary Anastasia O’Grady • national dialogue • neo-colonial occupation • Nicolas Rossier • night of the coup • Obama administration • political exile • populism • Port au Princ • President Nicolas Sarkozy • President Rene Préval • Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin • privatization of state enterprises • Professor Bryant Freeman • psychogenic amnesia • puppet government • racism • Raoul Cedras • rape • reparation • resignation • restitution • Richard Lugar • right to vote • self-determination • South Africa • Swahili proverb • sweatshops • Teleco/IDT • tribunals • U.N. peacekeepers • U.N. soldiers • U.S. Embassy • U.S. State Department • U.S. subsidized rice industry • United Nations Security Council • Voodoo • vote for return • Wall Street Journal • Washington • water sanitization project • Witwatersrand University • Wyclef Jean • Zulu