Land Grab and Its Implication

Inhabitants’ expansion and increasing utilization by a marginal of citizens in the order of the earth are aiding universal land grab Africa being a major end. The pathetic and pathological aspect of this is that the best land is under fire for a grab.

In Africa report has shown that the continent has about 134 million hectares of land deals. The hurry to grab farmland may be attributed to 2007-2008 earth food price predicaments. Despite the fact that agricultural making was the foremost endeavor, mineral mining, commerce, and forest switch contributed a lot to this crazy push for Land grab on the continent.  In Africa such crazy land grabbing is having terrible negative consequences on the continental populace particularly on the farmers. Beginning from Fouta Djallon Massif in Guinea 4,200km river twist through Mali, Niger, Benin and pours into Nigerian segment of the Guinea, contemporarily the huge aquatic environment in the Atlantic Ocean. In the states River Niger flows, Mali is unhelpfully distressed by land grab agreement.

Oakland Institute, in its December 2011 report shows that, land Grab makes Africa hungry and dry. Obviously, most farmers in Africa had ended up dying as a result of this land grab. And this can be attributed to their denial of access to land.

Axiomatically, land grab will hamper food safety of many; this is because land for farming, grazing, and fishing will be a scarce commodity. Reasonable amount of farmers would be compelled to vacate their lands and in turn may likely sell their labour for wages and become perpetual proletariats. Those who are pastoralists will have no option but go in search for new grazing terrain or die out of frustration or hunger.

Nigeria’s Niger Delta is a well known fertile land; unfortunately, oil exploration, oil spills and pollution, damage of pipelines apparently have made the fertile land Niger Delta region squander land and danger zone. People of the region suffer from polluted environment caused by oil exploration; this pollution no doubt has caused the region a jumbo damage. Oil companies who have taken over these lands care less on the pollution they cause to the inhabitants of this region Niger Delta.

Devoid of any form of contestation, countless farmers losing their lands as a result of land grab in Africa will one day lead to continental food scarcity. The implication of this is that fragile economies obtainable in Africa cannot find the money for food imports, and might be required to take delivery of food relieve from nations whose conglomerates, may use the opportunity to frustrate and compound the problems and challenges of Africa the more.

There must be a policy or legislation to put an end land grab in Africa, and if land must be grabbed the finance must be put to public use as against the continental elites selling out vast lands to their alien allies at the expense of the larger population who needs land for survival.