Beginning with an illustration of the difficulties of a local vender in Côte d'Ivoire, the writers provide an excellent understanding of how global agricultural corporations are grabbing lands in Africa and creating chaos in local economies.
...behind-the-scenes consultations between African officials and corporate executives are being facilitated by the World Economic Forum’s Grow Africa Partnership. The partnership’s mandate is to bring business executives from companies like Monsanto and Yara together with African governments to convert the CAADP [Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme] national plans “into increased flows of private sector investment.”