Neo-Colonisation Examples

Question 1

What have Saudi Arabia done?

Answer 1

Spent $100m growing wheat, barley and rice in Ethiopia.

Question 2

What have Sudan done?

Answer 2

Signed a deal for 690,000 workers in South Korea and Sudan official says they will set aside 1/5 of Africa’s largest country’s cultivated land for the Arab gov.

Question 3

What have China done?

Answer 3

Secured the right to grow palm oil for biofuel on 2.8m hectares of Congo but the opposition leader of Zambia is against the project so China are threatening to cut ties with Zambia if this leader was to come into power.

Question 4

What have Pakistan done?

Answer 4

Offered half a million hectares and promise to hire 100,000 man security force to protect assets if Gulf investors decide to sign up.

Question 5

What have Qatar done?

Answer 5

Offered to build a new port in exchange for growing crops in Tana river delta in Kenya.

Question 6

What have Ghana done?

Answer 6

Must compete with Ivory Coast & Nigeria to get buyers to purchase cocoa in large quantities