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Tomatoes and greed – the exodus of Ghana's farmers | DW Documentary
Tomatoes and greed – the exodus of Ghana's farmers | DW Documentary Ọbádélé Kambon 77 Views • 6 years ago

What do tomatoes have to do with mass migration? Tomatoes are a poker chip in global trade policies. Subsidized products from the EU, China and elsewhere are sold at dumping prices, destroying markets and livelihoods in Africa in the process.

Edward still harvests tomatoes. But he is no longer on his own fields in Ghana. He now works on plantations in southern Italy under precarious conditions. The tomatoes he harvests are processed, canned and shipped abroad - including to Ghana, where they compete with local products. The flood of cheap imports from China, the US and the EU has driven Ghana’s tomato industry to ruin. Desperate farmers find themselves having to seek work elsewhere, including in Europe. For many, the only route available is a dangerous journey through the desert and across the Mediterranean. Ghana is a nation at peace, a democracy with free elections and economic growth. Nonetheless, tomato farmer Benedicta is only able to make ends meet because her husband regularly sends her money from his earnings in Italy.

A former tomato factory in Pwalugu, Ghana, illustrates the predicament. This factory once helped secure the livelihood of tomato farmers across the region. Today it lies empty, guarded by Vincent, a former employee who hopes to keep it from falling into ruin. In the surrounding region, the market for tomatoes has collapsed and most farmers are no longer growing what could easily be Ghana’s ‘red gold’. An agricultural advisor is trying to help local tomato farmers, but has little by way of hope to offer. Conditions like this are what drive local farmers to cut their losses and head for Europe. Once in Italy, migrants from Ghana and other African countries are forced to live in desperate conditions near the plantations. They work as day laborers for extremely low wages, helping to grow the very tomatoes that are costing people back home their work and livelihoods. These days, canned tomatoes from China, Italy and Spain are available for purchase on the market of Accra. Some may call this free trade. But economist Kwabena Otoo says free trade should open doors; not destroy people’s lives.

Every two seconds, a person is forced to flee their home. Today, more than 70 million people have been displaced worldwide. The DW documentary series ‘Displaced’ sheds light on the causes of this crisis and traces how wealthy industrialized countries are contributing to the exodus from the Global South.

Oil and ruin — exodus from Venezuela:
https://youtu.be/pNDJSp8FCjI
Drought and floods — the climate exodus: https://youtu.be/PjyX5dnhaMw

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The Truth Behind Tanzania's Colour  Revolution-The Fake Tanzania Revolution Protest
The Truth Behind Tanzania's Colour Revolution-The Fake Tanzania Revolution Protest Kwabena Ofori Osei 18 Views • 1 month ago

Long before polls even opened in Tanzania's October 2025 presidential election, Western media had already scripted the outcome in advance. 'Despotic' president Samia Suluhu Hassan would win a rigged contest. Her main opposition would be banned. And an organic, 'nonviolent' protest movement would be ruthlessly crushed at the cost of thousands of lives. In his explosive new documentary, 'What Happened on October 29?', Nigerian journalist David Hundeyin exposes the sordid truth behind this narrative. The mass graves breathlessly reported by CNN are nowhere to be found. The 'open source intelligence' on Tanzania's alleged crackdown comes direct from the UK Foreign Office. And the money trail behind the supposedly 'grassroots' protest movement leads straight to the Ford Foundation, a longtime proxy of the CIA.In this in-depth interview with Ahmed Kaballo of Sovereign Media, Hundeyin walks us through his findings. He makes an impassioned plea for Africans to resist the siren song of colour revolution, having seen one rob his native Nigeria of its future in 2015. He notes that Tanzania's unrest has nothing in common with Kenya's organic, anti-imperialist movement against William Ruto's Finance Bill. And he draws sobering lessons for Africa, and the Global South at large, in their struggle for sovereignty against the Western NGO-industrial complex.'What Happened on October 29?' can be streamed in full on YouTube through David Hundeyin and African Spearhead's channels.#tanzania #globalsoth #africa #sovereignty #antiimperialism

Cracking Ancient Codes: Egyptian Hieroglyphs - with Andrew Robinson
Cracking Ancient Codes: Egyptian Hieroglyphs - with Andrew Robinson Ambakisye-Okang Dukuzumurenyi 19 Views • 5 years ago

How did scholars begin to decipher ancient scripts like the hieroglyphs?
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Very soon after the birth of the first written language - cuneiform - ancient Egypt developed its own writing: the hieroglyphic script, immortalised in the Rosetta Stone kept in the British Museum, which consists of a single royal edict, dated 196 BC, written in the hieroglyphic, demotic and Greek alphabetic scripts.

Andrew Robinson is the author of more than twenty-five books, issued by leading general and academic publishers. In addition to "Cracking the Egyptian Code", they include "The Last Man Who Knew Everything" (a biography of Thomas Young): https://geni.us/XIBXvR , and "Lost Languages: The Enigma of the World’s Undeciphered Scripts": https://geni.us/iqP0Q. A former literary editor of The Times Higher Education Supplement, he also writes reviews and features for newspapers, magazines and journals, in both the arts and sciences.

This talk was filmed in the Ri on 18 January 2019.

Watch the second talk on ancient codes, all about the cuneiform language by Irving Finkel: https://youtu.be/PfYYraMgiBA

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Creative idea to use free gas from garbage
Creative idea to use free gas from garbage Ọbádélé Kambon 49 Views • 2 years ago

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West African Farmer Testimonies: How we are Overcoming the Crisis of Climate Change in the Sahel
West African Farmer Testimonies: How we are Overcoming the Crisis of Climate Change in the Sahel Ambakisye-Okang Dukuzumurenyi 30 Views • 5 years ago

ORFC Global 2021 Session

West African Farmer Testimonies: How We Are Overcoming the Crisis of Climate Change in the Sahel Through Natural Regeneration of Trees on Our Farms

Small-scale farmers in the 16 countries of the Sahel in West Africa face a dual crisis to their livelihoods: climate change and land degradation. 

For many generations, farmers had lived and farmed in equilibrium with the natural environment. They maintained soil fertility, water holding capacity and crop production through fallowing and other practices. 

Today, population pressure, climate change, soil erosion, misuse of agrochemicals have reduced the resiliency and sustainability of the farming system. Farm communities have become highly vulnerable to drought. Hunger and chronic malnutrition have increased. 

This session highlights the testimonies of farmers, men and women, from 4 countries in the Sahel in overcoming these problems. They represent a wider movement adapting the principles of “agroecology” (learning how to work with nature). This grassroots, farmer-led movement has achieved remarkable success in transforming landscapes, adapting to climate change, regenerating their soils, and improving their food security. 

Their inspiring testimonies show how human determination, innovation, and collective action have brought hope to one of the most ecologically fragile, crisis prone areas in Africa.

Speakers:
Tsuamba Bourgou
Fatou Batta
Dan Banuoku

Chair:
Peter Gubbels

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