Who jumped out at. How to get it. And i got joy out of the day care. And so they. Got thirty of us out of the other l. The way. They are not going to has that a. Whole nother go but honestly i didnt know about that. Day that. Does it out of the. General im not that of us that out of go im an economist on of us that out of go ever brought it up rather than of us they are though our gov get in there that are them. Get down to move. Them up one of us to gather. Them up doing this to the other go. To put that a boom. In the limo. And. Will. Abide. By. On. The airport and i decide to buy theo p. A six years ago this is where the story began. On the tarmac i see white cargo planes being unloaded food aid coming into the country. And at the same time food being exported out. Why is a famine struck country receiving food aid exporting food to the rich world to us. To make sense. Returning to find out more i couldnt imagine that it was the beginning of a much bigger story. Than. The beasts. Playing. The bad. Guys. Wherever i go in the city everything seems to be about Development Hunger and poverty are to be eradicated by any means necessary. For the Ethiopian Government the solution is to invite foreign investors. Would be ok but would they let them but i think it will be for the good to the ladies. That of my lessons in how we think that the lameness theyre all about it all but investment and that some are not yet and yes again known as that focus on buyout which i would have thought it was if you took any sort of milage you know you can about which not just diplomatically took out the investment leg and you can be sure to. The call from the government is heard in the Luxury Hotels of the city i meet International Business people inventors looking for opportunities the hot topic on everyones lips is farmland what they call the new green gold. Good. To. See. The. When i came here i first went to Investment Office they said that they were very keen to have Foreign Investment here to stimulate business and also to improve the Foreign Exchange ballots. To commercial operation i could see that it was suitable for what i wanted to do here great rainfall. Good soils and youre really interesting situation its just good 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. Scenario is a Big Commission but when ive been on the central. It means damage on the road ecological system of the park and its never reported in the media and the things that for us to miss i think it is another big disaster because you cant cover that for us to buy any museums maybe for the next five hundred years. Whatever there is fertile land in ethiopia youll find none do of us theres. That isnt a mans i have heard a lot of reports from western region. Now i want to see with my own eyes what exactly is going on. Our gala laus me to join him on his investigative trip to the gun bella region far away in western new york. After two days of driving we finally reached umbrella for ages this region has been an isolated corner v. O. P. Or. Somehow it reminds of forgotten world still untouched by modern civilisation. But now things are changing. And under one cause presumably. To get a little it is a much higher glut. Of cylinder seem to fit in with us live here and honestly is a much more limited way get out get on it and atlanta got a look in model. Going to visit what is a myth what is that michelle did and what is it met that much again give me a click you know basically ill tell you. What the what the when i watch a video. Because he slipped while it was on about a child. Going to ask about that theyre going to ask because again you are today are you gonna let me tell you i got. Thank you live in you mean how can and anything can i thing it was at forty three and living. In the land of the dead. I sat there on with a tiny little single you know which if you look at the top i simply it was in my early man up there by left only about him theres no point in your neighborhood live in the cellars he had had he was down there with that he. India learning and dont let on than them the io monad name how could anyone in the cannot they would then lets meet masai. 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 five thousand square kilometers stretching all the way to south sudan and is 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 is. To make this park. The second to the seven getting park. I think there now. This is a region. There is a National Park in the middle here. The area east full of many species why lending money. There is a pleasure that. Investors coming to come to be given land so are awarded now nt to do the same demarkation quickly as soon as possible so that the then vest as 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 to see it we are trying our best. This is where we have now now through. The park official almost 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. Yes. At a junction theres a road sign. A Company Named saudi star. Buffy soul was fairly disturbing. I wonder just how does the company hes after in that case. Its sad expanding into the National Park. So i would seriously damage the white the knife and the lesson of cutting. The fucking thing and. Cutting and cutting and cutting something. To cut. Costs. In the regional capital argyle goes out alone to find information about the governments plans for the National Park and the saudi star company. 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 millions. Around forty. Years later would take a very long look in any children as the leader must reach over. To get there. Soon to do it. I feel kind of fear in most places particularly in recklessness they cannot understand you are in june and he just cannot understand you have a right to call it says the government policy so they cannot understand so it is your job and a way that trying to create a sense of fear and. A serious warning and. In that condition you feel that you went into into jail might be touched by someone ok then run away from that place. The for. Our guy was lucky to make it out of gum bella but for him this story is too important to drop. The young beloved harry potter can become a cutter. Design cover of the particle night out east given a shot. But limited only a mature look at innovation youre going to get my news flow of you know. Look i know that china. Nursery. School. During the peaks i mean into eightys about four hundred thousand people die and almost every family does the luftwaffes. But the hunger has not disappeared but a million or so people are still dependent on food aid for their survival. Now in verses from all over the world that are coming here to get to farmland. If it does in time i had a culture a land is taken away from our farmers and crops are exported they maybe even more hunger. Before hardly any International Investors cared about farmland in africa so why are they so interested now. To now. Searching for answers i go to the Global Financial centers in new york the largest conference for agricultural investors is held. I let myself in through the back door. And once you get it there so now its a famous american banker why do you rob banks because thats where the money is so he said and in some ways thats why people are less negative because now theres money in the u. S. You can make a profit. As an agriculture you know what you probably couldnt ten twenty years ago. Did things change around the middle of the two thousand was when we had a big spike in food prices. And the reasons why the present high is because on the demand side we have well population going to nine billion a lot of media man command of asia out of china and on the supply side you know there are questions about how much for talent is about and are suitable for the project and the heavily populated parts of the state of europe and other areas. And whats changed in two thousand and eight is that we seem Institutional Investors we Pension Funds Insurance Companies private equity funds hedge fund to now starting to look at agriculture just as a as a real asset something tangible which is you could say value a good face invest money in the same way as theyve looked before at commercial real estate or i write for the street. As it turns out the rush for the green gold is reaching every corner of the planet International Investors will soon control over fifty five million 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 companies 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. To. Meet six shots. The owner billionaire alla muti has a longstanding interest in ethiopia but investigating Land Investments in ethiopia is dangerous. With his arrest and dumbbell a freshness mind argyll has fears about the government. But i was a foreigner making a film about i grew Cultural Development i could contact the company. Ladyship building it this was it. So the story. Before we start you know is just in case there are some confidentiality. Which may not be disclosed to some interviews theyve made quiet not fish out on the ship. And so yes yes. This is you know one thousand. And this one this it is two thousand that they are no sanction these city thousand that this one is four thousand a day that sort of become ten thousand if thats so of course all of the clearly got to be think of this here that almost all of it so all of this is it is. There and the sand and the fact that its now on on a structure that was in the six months this is of ice a million five to it well defined. As you know just two. X. Five the. Two was a maximum of. Twelve and it was the government is to provide us some moron this or that we could expand just. We are lucky the manager grants permission to visit the farm and. Arriving at the farm area we risk ordered by the Company Security service. You know the saudis started to. Catch up to the no plan to be listening. To compass. And fox and probable cause the Company Provides Services Like food Service Clinic service for the few good working here we have a football field people do football great kates like they are in near future also again will have a Swimming Pool like so this is very nice place where people live in freely not scared of the security is good then the health care. And that Living Standard is very good in the europa standard. All the camp fighting teams they are designed in good way done by Swedish Company dropped. So what was here before you started. It was simply. A forest with a nice a forest not like one of. But you see this fiercely populated oh that was closed and if you noticed production. Didnt get the brown rice and that but as it moved and. I trace thats going out of the polished but this one is only one of the. Its made is very expensive and you will export police money yes. 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. Then he was this all. Female once the project is completed and then. You find something not only in one hundred films but also there is something for the mankind that something gives you comfort. There there are issues which we fly. Through the displacement of the people. Taking place. Theres not much. People living. In the villages that inside yes you know. The People Living in. Must have been affected and then what. There. Is that some of the places that the. Stars operating on the eagle permits awarded by the government but to enable this development the government is a victim the local on your own people from the land. Norks or Indigenous People whove 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 the world of science. Most people are too afraid of the government to speak freely about a problem. And said fear is just a fight. But every because there is any top of mind and spice. Just pick up against the Land Investments could be granted us on to development and on indefinitely in jail. Finally our goal manages to find people willing to talk to us. Them a bit. Funky which he did you took a model what. Do you want to get why no collect money. Why you know would you go to get. Back on it that. Would be done well go quarterly down in. The. World which will leave you to your government. But you already have by. Them now. Yeah. We can give you kind of. We. Were not a woman. Wanted to know. I want to become one of. With a you. Whatever you are down here. And. Garbage in your bio. Nobody can come but my money my and here paul. Who could walk. Around with him york with a pipe and all the Mountain Time he got it working in bed with them then i can make a grown man credible and look to me to have a at the core chick the more difficult to be very careful i want to come by whom betty. Meet. All over ethiopia Small Farmers are being forced off their land and moved to new villages one and a half Million People are about to be evicted. The government calls the forced relocation villages ational creating 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. The should go but in that and only due to my model because im cannot industry i could only go one day. Many thought on that article going on under bono to come to your market that im doing been going nowhere. For cutting if you want to and im bored i want to thank you and that ability the challenge that. So if you dont want anything to get you what does it start i just dont need to know dont you. All know i have to add up to you 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. To. Make good. Go numb wanted to be when we met dark and shell come and then come and get all good you and i are going to bombard you war come on get on that do you when will the moment of you. Got to make a deal dont want me to go to going to get you dont dont need to do it you bought the order dont need you but a year there would be yeah it would have been doubtful i think for a real one a veteran or one you can walk on fighting come by eleven antitobacco. Going on i want to go no come out when he. Could get convicted of attempted there dont want to and it didnt happen. But were going to attempt to be going to take over again more going more moment time to time rick i know but lauren a good idea to tell you when we were going to. The bottom of the wall. Were not going to damage your poor me to walk there during the only year it only got pokemon one of them out of court in one year for. The Development Program p. B. S. Protection of basic services is meant to help the poorest. The intention is great but it appears as if the Ethiopian Government income bella is exploiting the Development Program to clear land for the internet. Investors. The p. B. S. Program is funded by the us the European Union and the world bank. The world bank is the Worlds Largest Development 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 two billion dollars 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 it 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 of. The form thing is to make sure that those projects are television a quality way without jeopardizing the environments. Making sure that we protect people and in fact benefit society at large without necessarily creating new reserves. In three Million People already depend on food aid to survive now the Development Program seems to be creating even more hunger. How can the Small Farmers survive when theyve lost their land. More food and. Earth. Theyre weird but. Recently there was that. Enough but enough. Now resident told. Oh i have a journal rational view of the book with. Our dog on his groundbreaking story now the challenge is to find an editor who dares to publish. Hundreds of Land Investors flooded into the field via. But are they all the same. To find out i traveled to another corner of this beautiful and fertile country. Through. This one looked right. At the. Most three. Seven one one you know. With the green is good. And thats great. Yeah. But i dont know. If the two days are really. Three. Point of view its very dangerous trying. To spend time looking at the girl so. The land that we took initially had been you. Twenty years before by the state farm system but they had abandoned it because they said its too dry to grow crops on so we were the first people to plough in that area now if i can just point out across the way. There is a neighbor of ours here hes also a local person. He has. No infrastructure and much no machinery. But what he does do is follow his crop very closely and he does everything at the right time and you see hes also got a very good crop now id like to just show you this call just here. The person the farmer who has this is somebody who lives in addis ababa not following their crop closely what we call an investor they come perhaps once a year to look at their crops the result of that is that we have a lot of this week this is called i see grass weed its called asking garbo literally means no bread what we need is more of the mentality of the pharma rather than the investor people who are committed to growing crops following their crops having that competitive instinct wanting to find something which increases the production. Thats. One of the things theyre very keen on these people are having export crops in order to increase the fighting has changed how we havent gone down that route i mean were we to safe imports. Which varieties this is what i am about. It is really yeah. Yeah so yes well ok and look be there ready now and the others are almost ready so a few can come on wednesday and. Tuesday night you come thats good and also he was good good i think thats very nice no problem with that and thats a good million issues. Hes on fire. Philip ca is one of the worlds most successful. In our special this week we meet him backstage. Cantata chanel momentum and homage in voyage in the minds eye i live in the. Public school in. Dublin. The son tyson brentanos from two jurors are dealing with and even at that i killed many civilians i mean the Irish Company clearing my father while saying i was a student because i wanted to build a life for myself like these totally but suddenly life became mellish kind of song. Providing insights global news that matters d. W. Made for mines. First thing in school in the. First clip. And then gores grand moment arrives join the arena tango on her journey. In our interactive documentary. And returns home. To our place and. 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