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The dark side of agriculture in Ethiopia (1/2) | DW Documentary (Farming documentary)
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- Опубликовано: 4 янв 2019
- Across the globe, global commercial demand for arable land is on the rise. One of the most profitable new agricultural hotspots is Ethiopia. [Online until: February 4, 2019]
Part 2: • The dark side of agric...
Farmland - the new green gold. In the hopes of huge export revenues, the Ethiopian government is leasing millions of hectares of land to foreign investors. But there’s a dark side to this dream of prosperity.
The results are massive forced evictions, the destruction of smallholdings, state repression, and a vicious spiral of violence in light of environmental devastation. Global institutions like the EU, World Bank and DFID are contributing to this disaster with billions of dollars in development money every year. Whoever gets in their way is met with severe consequences. The young Ethiopian environmental activist Argaw learned that the hard way when he tried to raise awareness for his country’s plight.
Are transnational land investments bolstering the economy or selling out the country? While some hope for financial gains and development, others are losing their very livelihood. In pursuit of the story, we meet investors, bureaucrats, persecuted journalists, struggling environmentalists and farmers who have been evicted from their land. Swedish director Joakim Demmer’s shocking real-life thriller ‘Dead Donkeys Fear No Hyenas’ starts in apparently remote corners of Ethiopia and leads through global financial centers, right to our dining tables.
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DW makes documentaries on real life problems..I like this content.
I love DW documentaries..
me too
All the native speakers' speeches chinese,indian or africañ are not interpreted correctly! Plse remove the lines on the screen! Cannot see the videos being shown? Except english speeches
My Ethiopian sisters and brothers fight hard to protect your natural resources, we Kenyans have cut down our forests and are suffering the consequences. we are facing water shortages and the rains are not as much as they used to be, our arable land is not as fertile as it used to be, Ethiopia is such a beautiful country, learn from our mistakes and avoid them.
Well said. Learning from others mistakes is one of the best ways of avoiding or preventing future disasters
James Sitati, bwana, I wish more East and Central Africans would adhere to your warning. We are being fooled by shiny tricks and in return we are destroying our only remaining resources preventing us from being enslaved. These foods are being exported abroad while we remain poor. We are giving away the things that are left for generating wealth. Oil will be dead soon.
Brother James, may be you could look Mr Sawadogo from Burkinafaso who regreening the desert by his own wit Zai pit sistem for more 20 years, and was succeed. That is a good sample how to improve your environment, at the side your food resources too without depending on foreign aid.
But we stop, reforested our forest and we are currently buying our timber from Tanzania and it's not only deforestation that is harmful to the environment other things we are or have worked on is sand harvesting and mining for limestone
your persona is so american. Anyway, the technology was designed to see what people fight for so they can measure it in brain and neural networking, and then weaponize weakness if cooperation is needed and so on!
I am from Ethiopia and this breaks my heart.i hate the government
Every Ethiopia leaders have been hated since 150y ago Menelik 2,Hailer Selassie, derg & EPRDF Africa has hard time finding trusting leader not just for the country but for the people based on western demrocey standerd.
Halier Selassie and menelik are only loved by Amhara which mean 75% of population hate them.
Derg hated by 85%+
EPRDF hated by 46% althise that might drop since abiy came.
Me too henok
yes so do I but people need to understand that the government are there servants and the people alone should decide what happens to their lands
I think it's all our responsibility ... we our watching our country be destroyed by the west . We need to do something .
This was during meles
DW makes quality content - best documentaries!
I am from New Zealand.I think that the local people and the local ecosystems must be look after first and foremost.
Lol, new Zealand was created on such looted land by destroying aboriginals
@@iXpress You obviously dont know anything about new zealand.the british might have had a war but the new zealanders did not do the things that happend in Australia USA Canada or what the bantu's did to the natives living in the lands they conquered.
Africa needs more investors but not Colonizers Ok!
That's how the colonizers come in--as investors
Those that have money always ruke
Sadly, Investing is the new way to colonize a country
First, for those that made this documentary, THANK YOU VERY MUCH. It is a good glimpse into the atrocities committed by the then government on the people of Gambella and the whole nation in general. Now, in 2019, there is a new hope. The people who were responsible are either dead or in prison. Development should not come at the cost of human life or dignity. I hope the people who are in power now will find the balance. It would be of interest to see the difference 2 years makes. We are hopeful.
Great content. People need to see this. A documentary worth watching.
I really liked the song at the start.
The problem is many of these countries grow things like jute and tobacco that are not edible and therefore you have crops but people still starve. Cash crops over food.
Really kkkkkk
the instrumental reminds a bit of Irish music
35:07 Ethnic tensions? You create these tensions to keep us distracted sir!
What? Ethiopia never got colonized. Ethiopa has decided its own borders through war and politics.
I find this issue similar to Indonesian so-called 'transmigration' project that brings people from heavily populated area (usually Java) to small populated area (usually outside Java). The natives in the destination area protested the government on why it wasn't them that were given land instead of the migrants.
Yeah
Good stuff as usual, Keep it up DW.
I think I'm watching this documentary for 1h already but I never passed the 2 min mark.
I keep listening to that damn song! Such a masterpiece!
Please do more documentary like this, I just just love your work. great job
*The issue with large industrial farming* is the mono-culture without crop rotation.
It damages the soil for a decade or so. Whoever invests into farming projects should be only investing into projects that use crop rotation.
But industrial farming is based on monoculture....
thank you DW documentary, i find your content well crafted and very informative.
many investors are like shareholders in it for the money and like politicians they will tell lies and hide the truth to get what they want.! we NEED MORE ACCOUNTABILITY..!
never ceases to amaze me- the selfishness and greed of the elite. i should know better than to expect decency yet here i am -upset at seeing it again...
Me Too x
That is exactly what happened to the Kalahari man in South Africa long ago in past we learn nothing except more greed and now in the name of developments destroying fertile land and killing wildlife all over Africa and they say why African people migrate to Europe and the rest of the world. Well, The World Bank is responsible for all crisis by supporting corrupt governments all over the world in poor countries and pretending to be helpful.
Thanks for the report DW Documentary
Thank you for educating us about our own country . This channel has excellent content .
Africa we are blessed with natural resources and critical thinking is somehow lacking....what is taking place in Africa today our future generations will curse the generation that is letting all this happen..Thank you DW
Really difficult to read the subtitles
While this documentary raises issues that still exist; it is a bit outdated. A lot has changed since it's filming; Including the revoking of the land lease to the company in question.
Giving away National Parks has to be condemned, but developing a sector like Agriculture by producing high value crops and adding value to it is certainly a way of development. Those that wish to see locals living in pre-historic conditions for ever must revise their concepts. Maximising natural resources is the only way to provide better conditions for the locals(Education, health, access to credit, etc..) but if they don't have conditions to do so, someone has to do it. I feel sorry for the lost forests.... In a place like Ethiopia, where communism left behind very bad traces of inefficiency can reverse this by re-educating the people and having next door a modern farm will certainly enlighten many. Locals must yes benefit from the investors and best way is to employ them and allocate them land to replicate what they learn from investors. We are no longer living in a isolated communist world.
I like your documentaries. It is so knowledgable. Thanks
Thanks for watching!
Love the voice of the singer
Happy new year DW, may GOD bless you all and aslo protect you as you make such doc which sheds light into what is taking place,I never miss a piece of your doc, very thot and well prepared, hope to see more and more in 2019, once again happy new year But DW since now we have a new leader and gorverment in ethiopia, can you kidly do a new one and we see if this new leader is doing things the same way or if there is a change brought by him, i am talking abaut the new PM in ethiopia Hon Abiy Ahmed, pls we would like to see if there is a change in ethiopia, thanks in advance
Thanks DW for you marking documentary on real life problems
Wonderful resource for my Ethnobotany course. Thanks for making this documentary!
I like this channel huge 😊 i hope and request to make more documentary about agriculture
Such a tragedy, hopefully they can come to a compromise before it is too late. Come to the central valley here in California and you will see the absolute devastation of decades of commercial farming. I stayed at a hotel in a small town (Firebaugh) and the owner told me to not use hot water in the shower for more than 5 minutes...because the amount of agricultural chemicals in the tap water was toxic....
White font subtitles😞😩
I can’t see it to read it.
Try Pausing the video each time to get a better view
junell king it’s gonna be a long watch
When i was a child i could not understand why a Lion was chasing and eating another animal in the Forest. But now, as an adult, i can't accept or understand how an "investor" may be allowed to open land in the middle of a dense Forest to kill wild life and exploit poor people. That makes no sense at all. "You know what" in the end, wild life animal are far more intelligent than human kind. Great job DW!! the good will end up winning over the bad ones.
Brilliant work!...calls attention for this crucial & important issue..
Karuturi Global Ltd an Indian agro-company, among the world’s biggest producer of cut roses has acquired 300,000 hectares of fertile farmland in Ethiopia through a very cheap land lease (20 Birr=$1.10 per hac.) for 99 years.
Heart breaking.
DW, please, could you put back the voice-over translation for the non-English speakers in your future documentaries? I'm blind and the dubbing helped me a lot! I tried to activate the subtitles/closed captions, but it didn't work... it picked up gibberish... You might have some subtitle built into the video, but my screan-reader doesn't pick it up...
I know there are a lot of people asking for the original audio, but that's not useful to them since the majority of them don't speak Ethiopian! They don't have consideration for the fact that for a small arrogant desire of theirs, they sacrifice the understanding of the essence of the documentary by the blind viewers!
Just in case there are some ignorant or cave people that think that blind people don't matter all that much, I want to say that we can be very good advocates within society, for a better world! But we need to be informed as well!
Thank you DW!
DW documentaries are a treasure
My hats off to this DOCUMENTARY. Keep it up the good work DW !
Wonderful eye opening journalism
It is a very nice iniative by DW team, it shows the different Africa which is still hungry and export food products !
So sorry this has happened- cash crops all over again, but the poor can't afford to eat! Corporations ruining any old country they please, and it's going to happen in the UK too soon. Slavery and the exploitation of low paid workers never went away: when will people realise this?!
That aside, what wonderful music at the beginning. Like a cross between an Irish jig, an Asiatic cord structure, and the blues of course. Someone needs to offer them a world tour to expose and enlighten. Plain beautiful. If I had the money and the health I'd be flying over there to ask if I could be their student, and join the band! Sorry if that sounded crass, and I do realise the documentary is serious. We have so much to learn bowever from our fellow man, but all they learn is how little their lives mean, that they are powerless against these forces.
I pray one day for a better world, where people and nature are valued, rather than money and status.
No doubt Fuel crop production such as ethanol here in US, permanently screwed up food chain. Now we feeding our cars with food. And here in Chicago, we are home to "Futures exchange." Bet even trade in Water futures.
There is no .money in africa.
The instrument is called a masenqo if wish to find more music
I love your all documentry ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Thank you for commenting and subsribing. We really appreciate the positive feedback! :)
@18:39 and this is why I am worried about people such as Bill Gates purchasing large quantities of agricultural land. The price of land is only continuing to go up.
His description of the farm makes me so madddd! The most irrelevant knowledge I have ever acquired. Honestly heart breaking that they have brainwashed him like that. As an Ethiopian, I know no ordinary citizen will let these actions fly by. I highly recommend you get this information out to the public by screening it at Alem Cinema in Addissssss
Honestly it seems to me that the investors are not the problem, but potentially a big part of the solution so long as they're appropriately regulated and so long as the the programme is conducted in a responsible way. These investments are creating profitable business in areas previously all but uninhabited and entirely undeveloped, increasing the overall goods produced in the country, creating jobs, bringing in tax money and developing infrastructure, much of which was seen in this video.
The main problem was however seen in this video, and that's food aid. It crashes the price of staple crops and thus drives local farmers either out of business or keeps them at a subsistence level of production, as they can not sell off excess goods for a profit.
Ethiopia should continue the investment programme, and make better efforts to ensure that local communities benefit and that the land is utilised in a way which does not compromise long term fertility. It should also steadily step down its acceptance of food aid, and support local farmers to fill in that demand through direct investment, low taxes and development of infrastructure that will connect them with urban markets.
This is going to end very bad!!!!
Also is it only me thinking this, but them two world bank employees looked very shady and know more than letting on and they have no heart or conscious if so!!!!
Any follow-up on this story? Was the land given to investors??
it is true what the BiBle says that the love of money is the root of all evil
Saudis are the new colonial power, but the difference is that the British LIVED on the farms they owned and developed and supported the local people who worked on their farms. THIS is nothing but industrialization of farming on a MASSIVE scale and the profits LEAVE the country and are not re invested in the local areas. The local people do not feel ANY benefits from this. YET they called the British the bad people taking advantage. Really???
They supported themselves, just themselves!
7:21 the moment kill me 😯
Great
I love the melody
Should be balance beside econimic and environment
cry, my beloved Africa
Man the captions were hard to read
As far as I know, the holy Quran does not allowed to deprivation anyone's rights. I dnt know what they learned from it...saudi and the local traitors should be ashamed 😔
and good job DW, well explained the pain of these people 👍
Why does it say in the description that the documentary will be online only for a certain amount of time?
So they give us low quality food in exchange of our own grown high-quality??
Good documentary of Eithopia black agricultural dark story.
“But we don’t sleep well. The idea that a famine-struck country should export rice is just too strange”
This is melodramatic and shows a misunderstanding of economics. Famines rarely take place because there isn’t enough food. Ethiopia, specifically, is experiencing food insecurity mostly because millions of people have been displaced by violence.
Ethiopia desperately needs foreign investors!
Also, the billionaire Al Almoudi (despite the sinister music) has a “longstanding interest in Ethiopia”.....because he is Ethiopian.....*gasp*
the opening song and the singer ...
they should sings at Woodstock opening next year
save the nature from hyenas
Nice documentary. But do remember that this is a documentary from 6 years ago. Our current government don't harass and jail journalists. We have free media that can report everything and criticize the government. Citizens are free to speak their mind and to demonstrate against the government. We have all opposition parties free to operate in the land. Currently there is no political prisoner or journalist in jail. Just to make you all aware that Ethiopia is not in that dictatorship era.
That is a good note to make. The corrupt government is finally gone. All the unrest you have been following in the central and northern part of the country the last few years was in part because the system was choked by greedy, deaf maggots. Time finally caught up with them. There is peace now even with Eritrea.
I doubt this is true.
DW documentaries should make a documentary about what's the US government's role in Banana Republic back in history. especially people in the US nobody knows it.
U guys have beautiful land especially gambele region, please take care of it.
This is not a problem with the Investors.
They are working on a project as pre-agreed.
If you don't want foreign Investment, just say "no" to them instead of accepting their moneys and harassing them to get something illegally.
I am from India..I like DW..Do many better documentaries like this...
BBC docs are great too
Well Its just heartbreaking 😓❤️
What doesn’t make sense is growing food for other countries while you don’t even have enough to feed your own people, and then you accept food aid. That’s what does not make sense to me. The government just wants the money. That’s all it is about. It is not about about helping the people.
Beautiful Country
Really sad.
Omg. They cleared a massive land of trees to plant rice in Africa :( a place where they don't get monsoon rains.
This story has been replayed in every continent in the world. When this happened in the USA the army was sent it and simply wiped out the indigenous population. I am not saying it’s right but this is not unique to Ethiopia. Most of the products we consume in the first world countries came at the expense of indigenous peoples in some corner of the world.
Additionally Teff is eaten in Ethiopia not rice.
Guys I don't think we need to worry about this any more the new leader Abiy ahimed loves trees like literally and the people who did this are being hunted and the guy really loves trees in 2020 only he asked us (the people to plant tress ) around 5 billion trees were planted
This is the sour truth about Ethiopian agriculture. Only us Ethiopians can save our precious land from deforestation and foreigners "legally" stealing our lands. These Northern and Western countries only care for their own benefit and the Ethiopians hired in these companies are working for the sake of these countries not for the development of their lives or Ethiopia. It makes me sick when I think about it
Very sad for the local farmers, we can clearly see that the Ethiopian government targeted those communities based on their skin color, a lot of discrimination on air. dark skin ethiopian communities are not shown, not represented in politics.
Progress has the rather annoying habit of letting no man or beast stand in its way; it is, unfortunately, a necessary evil we must live with since we've chosen to breed in large numbers in some parts of the world without the necessary means to sustain ourselves. Very concerning that a country this size with huge tracks of fertile farm land as shown would struggle to feed its people and yet be expected to turn its back on globalization.
Idylls are all very well but no one ever fed themselves on an an ideal.
Let those with ideas and capabilities do what most seem to have failed to do locally for so long. Some pain will be felt in the near term but long term benefits can be enjoyed by all IF the local government does not lose sight of the end goal and work towards it by simply ensuring that this sort of thing remains an investment rather than an exploitation.
Relocating the villagers should have been part of the cost of the investment and social services provides as part of CSR but then again, it would require the diligence of the investors and a clued up government to work these things out. Clearly not the case here.
I thought Greenpeace care about the forest?
totally disgusting how foreign investors are destroying the land and people's livelihoods all for greed...
plz the intro song what is
RUclips algorithms prevents masses from seeing useful content
This was shot before 2012 4:04 the news anchor is mentioning the late pm Meles.
I think 🤔 this is old documentary
good farmland like oil can be a curse on a country.
So for a living standard to be good it must meet that of Europeans ?
Africans throwing a jam sesh in the midst of pain says a lot about humanity
Don't blame the investors. Blame the the goverment for making such decision with the thoughts of improving its economy. As a result, take the risks of ruin the wild land and nature.
Unable to read the transcript most of the time, ruined the video and I gave up watching.
Africa and its people work up. What are you without your land. Chess these so called investors. They have no regards to your environment and wildlife and the people. Rise up Africa
This is heart-rending and stomach-turning. Adopting the synthetic environmentally-destructive models of the west is the worst thing to happen to any country in Africa. Need to preserve a simple naturalistic way of life that respects the soil, the terrain, AND co-exists with the wildlife. Now there will be the kind of pollution that the west is famous for -- material goods, packaging and furniture in landfills, destroyed ecosystems, poisoned soil and water ... the list is endless. Indulgent pointless excess from a lifestyle that is destroying the planet. Abandon so-called economic development!! Live in sustainable small homesteads in small communities, and leave unspoilt habitat for the animals!
The dark side of agriculture in .... Ethiopia, Mozambique, Madagascar, all over, this combined with climate change, will push lots of people to migrate to urban areas or Europe, and there will be conflicts.
Preparation for the grand solar minimum.
this is not easy, but Ethiopia is a country that is trying to develop. The population growth means that some things can not be done in the old ways. You can not make an omelette without breaking eggs. since this report was made Dr Abiy has been planting millions of trees
Oh yes, planting a lot of trees while probably detaining and killing a lot of innocent people who don’t agree with him either, so I guess him planting trees makes that OK, right?
Wow I cry while watching this documentary because this is my region Gambella and how the Ethiopian government are stealing the indigenous land from them without benefiting the people of Gambella... The problem in Ethiopia is there is racist because the brown skin Ethiopian and black skin Ethiopian...
the world bank isn't in countries like Ethiopia because of poverty and ethnic tensions. Poverty, Famine, and ethnic tensions are in these countries because the world bank came there.
When a government official says the workers are “free” you know their lying. Usually it’s a given that they are free to do what they want. It angered me hearing any official talk because I knew they are telling one true statement.
Nothing goes to the Ethiopia people. The government responsible for selling land to "investors" should be trial for crime against its people.
basmati has a geo tag.. you cannot use that name.
so what is really we are looking for in this earth, government invite foreign investment by the reason of their people prosperity, is it true ???
I has not words to describe HOW I FEEL WATCHING THIS PROGRAM, Natural Farm, Natural Prorecting Areas Destroyed, Millions of People will Safer, Governments that are not Learning the Lessons of Life only Money. This us Discapable Immoral.