STWR - Share The World's Resources

The food crisis in Africa had been building up for years, with the World Bank and IMF resident proconsuls reaching into the very innards of the state’s involvement in the agricultural economy to rip it up, argues Walden Bello.

Africa's hunger problem is about more than production, writes Sameer Dossani.  At the heart of the continent's agricultural crisis is the failed policy paradigm promoted by the World Bank and IMF - defined by a quasi-religious belief in free markets.

With almost 10 percent of the world's remaining oil, Africa represents the next phase of U.S. military interest - but the only lasting solution is to quit America's oil addiction, writes Antonia Juhasz..

The food crisis is threatening to "destroy years, if not decades, of economic progress" as "100 million people are being pushed back into absolute poverty", according to former UN secretary-general Kofi Annan.

Despite a history of colonial repression and exploitative modern-day trade deals with the EU, African civil society movements are beginning to win through.

A significant proportion of the world's 2.2 billion children, many of whom are victims of violence, sexual abuse, labour exploitation and preventable diseases, are from the crisis-plagued African continent.

The ANC government has allowed the world's most voracious companies to escape reparations for poisoning the land and its people.