Gaddafi: New feudal lords
2009-11-16 21:08
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Rome - Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi on Monday warned against the rise of "new feudal lords" in Africa where foreign companies are acquiring vast tracts of farmland.
"In Africa, foreign investors buy farmland, transforming themselves into new feudal lords against whom we must fight," Gaddafi said at a UN summit on food security in Rome.
Gaddafi added that Africa's most serious problem is the "monopolisation of seeds by companies that I would describe as diabolical".
The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation, hosting the three-day summit, "must dismantle this monopoly in all countries", he said.
Around 60 heads of state and government, most from Africa, Asia and Latin America, are taking part in the three-day summit with the conspicuous absence of the leaders of wealthy nations.
- SAPA