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Wherever i go in the city everything seems to be about Development Hunger and poverty are to be eradicated by any means necessary. I for the Ethiopian Government the solution is to invite foreign investors. I care to look at it but it would be a little bit late in the summer i think it will be put on to get the latest out of my list as you know. That ole miss that all about it will be investment and that some are not yet known as. Bite out but chop that thought it was a gimmick if you can claim certain that you know you can about a future not just a promise just meant to be so much you can be sure to come about to one. The call from the government is heard in the Luxury Hotels of the city i meet International Business people and ventures looking for opportunities the hot topic on everyones lips is farmland what they call the new green gold. To. Eat. Eat. When i came here i 1st went to Investment Office they said that they were very keen to have Foreign Investment here to stimulate business and also to improve their Foreign Exchange alex. Is a commercial operation i could see that it was suitable for what i wanted to do here great rainfall. Good soils and your really interesting situation its just thought to give it a go. Investors bringing money to a poor country might be good but what happens to the local farmers when the investors arrive. Knowing nothing about the country im pretty lost. But i get to know an environmental journalist dealing with the land issues. See not a reason is the big question but when ive been on the center of that. It means damage on the road ecological system of the park and its never reported on the media and the things that for us to miss i think it is another media justin because were trying to cover that for us to buy enemy seems maybe for the next 500 years. Whatever there is for thailand in ethiopia youll find london investors. That is on to mars i have heard a lot of reports from western region. Now i want to see it was my own eyes what exactly is going on. Our gala laus me to join him on his investigative trip to the gunbarrel our region far away in western iraq. After 2 days of driving we finally reached umbrella for ages this region has been an isolated corner of ethiopia. Somehow it reminds of forgotten world still untouched by modern civilisation. But now things are changing. Thank you to it. London one could conceive a child going to get a language as im a child like that. Is us elaine this which if it can let us live here nightly quickly yellow is a much more. Limited make it out of it and that hell end up going to take a look in my. Linda. What is emma what is that michelle what is the matter that much. You know. One of the. So called 1000 well it was and what it. Really is good that theyre going to ask of the could begin with that they are going to be a good. Thing she slept here and now can print anything p. I can 840. And in that. Anything. That. I sat on was at a time a little heating going into which if you look at the top i some heat is in my learn him im not there by left on the bottom thats not. In the number let me in the sellers here. He was to handle it he. India the learning and the many other than the i o. And i think ill continue in the canonical will move them but not my song. Leaving the farmer we follow the new road. We drive deeper into the heart of dumb bella and reach ethiopias Largest National park. The park covers over 5000 square kilometers stretching all the way to solve sudan and as the habitat of many endangered species this enormous area is also home to Indigenous People living off of small farming fishing and hunting the dream means to expand this park. To make this park. The 2nd to the 7 getting into. And now. This is stump in the region. There is a National Park in the middle here. The east full of many species why lending money. There is a pleasure that. Investors coming to come to be given the land so our warded now need to do the same demarkation quickly as soon as possible so that the then best theres can not be a look at it in the center of the park so this is what we are doing but who knows the pressure come from the federal i were playing maybe we can we dont know but the seed we are trying our best. This is where we have now through now. The park official omagh is worried that his small staff cant control the vast area of the park. A few hours later we discover that his concerns appear to be justified. Hes. At a junction theres a road sign. A Company Named saudi star. We saw was fairly disturbing. And wondered why the Saudi Stock Company hes after in sick a. Its sad expanding into the National Park. So i would seriously damage the wide the knife and the lesson of cutting. The thing thinking and playing. The mugging and. Something else something. That looks. To cut. Costs. In the regional capital argyll goes out alone to find information about the governments plans for the National Park and the saudis start companies. The local Security Police find out that our guy was asking around and they arrest him. The entire night our guy was interrogated at the police headquarters. Early in the morning he was released and ordered to leave dumbbell immediately he is told if you care about your security dont ever come back. There were opinions. Done for to. Stay with the case were going to get any jail children as they are in the streets have a. Cigarette as a. Sunni and you know that. I feel that kind of fear in most places particularly in iraq listens they cannot understand you are a journalist cannot understand you have a right to put it says the Government Policies they cannot understand such as your job and only way that trying to create this is the fear and. A serious warning and. In that condition you feel that you went into injured you might be attacked by someone ok then run away from softness. The for. Our guy was lucky to make it out of gum bella. But for him this story is too important to drop. The one below here i can mathematica. Lack of the purple knight years out east given a shot. Muslim originally a mission of getting or visually going to cut back of my huge loan of unity. Look at my new venture. Nursery. School. d during that because i mean into eightys about 100000 people died and almost every family does the loved ones. But the hunger has not disappeared but a 1000000 or so people are still dependent on food aid for their survival. Now investors from all over the world that are coming years to get to farmland. If at the same time i had a culture a land is taken away from our farmers and the crops are exported there maybe even more hunger. Before hardly any International Investors cared about farmland in africa so why are they so interested now. In a. Searching for answers i go to the Global Financial centers in new york the largest conference frag. Cultural investors is held. I let myself in through the back door and runs even if theyre so not so famous American Bank robber why do you rob banks because thats where the money and so he said and in some ways thats why people invest in agriculture because now theres money and you know she can make profits in agriculture any way you probably couldnt 1020 years ago. But things changed around the middle of the 2007 we had a big spike in food prices. And the reasons why the present Heart Disease has on the demand side we have more population going to 9000000000 a lot of need a man command of a ship out of china and on the supply side you know there are questions about how much Search Online is available in parts of the world in particular the heavily populated parts of east asia europe and other areas. I am i. And whats changed in from 2008 is what we seen institutional bester as we mentioned funds Insurance Companies private equity funds hedge fund to now starting to look at agriculture as as a as a real asset something tangible which is a good sort of value good place to invest money in the same ways theyve looked before at from actual real estate or ira forestry. d as it turns out the rush for the green gold is reaching every corner of the planet International Investors will soon control over 55000000. 00 hectares of farmland an area larger than the size of germany most affected are the poorest countries such as ethiopia. Saudi star has big plans for them bella. The Saudi Arabian company is preparing to farm an enormous area. And theyve already come far theyve come really far. To get on with the story we must return to the farm. Last. Week suits shaw. The owner of billionaire alla moody has a longstanding interest in ethiopia but investigating Land Investments in ethiopia is dangerous. With his arrest and dumbbell a fresh in his mind argyle has fears about the government. But as a foreigner making a film about Agricultural Development i could contact the company. Magazine building this was it and yes so the story. Before we start you know this to get some confidentiality. Which may not be disclosed to some interviews theyve made quiet most fish out of the ship at all. And so yes yes. This is you know 1000. And this one like this it is 2000 that they are no sanction these 3000 a day that this one is 4000 that make that sort of become 10000 if thats so of course all of the clearly got to be think of this here almost 12 but it. Is it is. There and the same time the fact that its now under construction was in the coming 6 months this is a vice 1000000 factory were defined. As you know it just 2. X. 5 in the bottom 2 was a maximum of. 12 and it was a government is to provide us some moron this or that we could expand these 5 and then. We are lucky the manager grants permission to visit the farm and gambell. Arriving at the farm area we risk ordered by the Company Security service. You know saudi started a. Touch of development in this need. To compass. And fox and drop will come the Company ProvidesServices Like food Service Clinic service for a few working here we have a football field people do football kates like they are in near future also again will have a Swimming Pool like so this is very nice place where people live. Freely not scared the security is good then the health care good and that Living Standard is very good in the air up to standard. All the camp festivities they are designed in good way done by through just company truck. So what was here before you started. It was simply. A forest but when i say forests not like this one of. But you see this fiercely populated oh that was clipped and if you noticed production. Didnt get the brown rice but i was it moved and it always gets white race and thats going to the fullest but this one is only one of the. High cholesterol isnt it is very expensive and you will export police radios. For the night we were given a guest room at the farm compound but we dont sleep very well the idea that a famine struck country should export rice is just too strange. You know. This all. And euphemia is completed and. You find something not only in 100 films but also there are something for the mankind that something gives you go for. Did. We find. You the displacement of the people. Taking place. Theres not much. People living. In the villages that insight yes. The People Living in there. Must have been affected and then what some people. Miss is that the. Saudi stars operating on the eagle permits awarded by the government to enable this development the government is a victim of the local people from the land. Or Indigenous People who have been living in the area for hundreds of years. We need to find out what happened to them i know. That. The most difficult piece to break through to one of sides. Most people are afraid of the government must be free to have problems and say the fear is justified. But over due course there is any thought of my enders and spice. Just pick up against the Land Investments youll be granted us on to development and an endeavor very quickly enjoy. Finally our goal manages to find people willing to talk to us. Give me a bit. On complete. What she did you took a model. I mean do you want to kick it why no callignee. Well you know what it. Would be done what any more you. Would. Leave you to your god. Given gloria what do you. Mean yeah. You can give me time to get. Well known and a woman. What a turn know. I want to become one of. With a year. What here they are down here. And. Cabbage you. Know he can cobble in my money in a year paul. Walker. Or colonel him yoke of the pipe and all the Mountain Time we have gotten more going to bed with them then i can make out one month variable and move to me a good day at the courtship the more difficult to the very cover i want to come by whom betty. Eat. You. Eat. All over the o. P. s Small Farmers are being forced off their land and moved to new villages one and a half 1000000 people are about to be evicted. The government calls the forced relocation villages ational trading new villages the official reason is that the locals can only benefit from Development Programs that provide people with Clean Water Health care school and food aid if they live in the villages. The Major Development program in the area is a program called p. B. S. Right beside the saudi star farm we find one of those new villages the only one who dares to speak with us is a local government official. It should go but im not going to really do to my model because im not an industry i dont know go and just as i will when you sold him that article going on under. The come to that that im doing with him you know where. Youre getting your humor and im bored i want to thank you in that ability the challenge that. So if you dont win anything it would as it started i just feel something i need to know i dont. Know my dad ever and. In the new villages we find empty bags on the ground. The local farmers whove lost their land now need food aid to survive. Seems hard to believe that these relocations are about helping people. In a. Way and they dont talk about going in one wanted to be when we met. And theyre going to get on good you and theyre going to bomb but you an out war come on get on that do you one with all the want of you. Got him a good deal vulnerable make a deal got a bomb to get you dont dont need to do with the old you dont need you but a young male what do you think that will. Ruin a veteran or when you can walk on fighting come by 11 antitobacco. Going home i want to go no come out here. Or get convicted of the death of dont want to admit to it in your pocket. But were going to target. Going to take over again were going more room over time to time were going to were loyal a good idea to tell you know when to be going home. But mano to all. That but were not going to bomb the prounion the walk. Yet it only do it though come out of one of them on a one year where. The Development Program p. P. S. Protection of basic services is meant to help the poorest. The intention is great but it appears as if the thiel be in Government Income bella is exploiting the Development Program to clear land for the international. The investors. The p. B. S. Program is funded by the us the European Union and the world bank. The world bank is the Worlds LargestDevelopment Bank and is financed by tax money the mission of the bank is to end extreme poverty and build prosperity. In ethiopia the world bank has put over 2000000000. 00 into the p. B. S. Program. The world bank is engaged in many countries that have institutional weaknesses that have ethnic tensions that have Big Development challenges and thats why were there ultimately. I think development often involves trade offs and Many Development aspects to come with costs. People should not be disadvantaged by by a project whether they own the land all they dont own. The form thing is to make sure that those projects are to live in a quality way without jeopardizing the environment. Making sure that we protect people and in fact benefit society at large without necessarily creating new reserves. In the theo 3000000. 00 people already depend on food aid to survive now the Development Program seems to be creating even more hung