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Food security: The "old" versus the "new" policy discourse - 0 views
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The ‘old’ discourse first emerged during the 1930s and became increasingly important in the post World War II decades.[4] According to Maxwell and Slater, food policy was here rather focusing on the rural population. It was rural peasants that were regarded as being food-insecure and the general focus of food policy was on agricultural technology and production.
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a “new” paradigm debate finally kicked off in 2007/2008 when both oil and agricultural commodity prices around the world exploded. Scholars as well as policy makers recognized that the former discourse with much emphasis on local agricultural production was outdated and global market complexities had to be taken into account when addressing issues of food security and sustainability.
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While it seems that the literature assumes that the ‘old’ and the ‘new’ emerging discourse contradict each other, I rather believe that both approaches have to be taken into account to the same degree. Interestingly, as I later on argue in this paper, the revolutionary government in Brukina Faso during the 1980s took that already for granted when addressing the issue of its population’s food security.
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Who Really Killed Thomas Sankara? | Pambazuka News - 0 views
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The approximate timing of his appearance in the country coincided with the assassination of President Thomas Sankara, the charismatic revolutionary leader of Burkina Faso, on 15 October 1987.
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The Burkinabe ambassador to Ghana, Madam Mamouna Ouattara, a Compaore loyalist, appears to have solicited Compaore’s assistance in getting the Ghanaian authorities to release Taylor into Burkinabe custody. This was facilitated by the fact that Ghana neither wanted to hand Taylor over to the Americans nor to Doe, and so Rawlings apparently released him to Compaore who had come to Accra as part of a mediation process Rawlings had undertaken to resolve the mounting disagreements between Sankara and Compaore.
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Crucially, Compaore is believed to have introduced Taylor to Libyan president, Muammar Qaddafi. Taylor and his recruits subsequently traveled to Libya where they underwent guerrilla training and formed a strategic alliance with Qaddafi who supported his desire to overthrow the Doe regime.
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The Political Orientation Speech Thomas Sankara, - My Blog - 0 views
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In fact, the imperialist plot of 17 May precipitated a large-scale consolidation of democratic and revolutionary forces and organizations that were mobilizedduring this period by developing initiatives and undertaking bold actions previously unknown.
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History and process of political consciousness of the masses follow a dialectical path that escapes reactionary logic. That is why the events of May 1983 greatly contributed to accelerating the process of political clarification in our country, reaching such a degree that the masses at large made a significant qualitative leap in understanding the situation.
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thelegacy of 23 years of imperialist exploitation and domination is heavy. Our task of building a new society will be hard and difficult, a society free of all the evils that keep our country in a situation of poverty and economic andcultural backwardness.
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The Devil They Know - The New Yorker - 0 views
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Lester Hyman says that Taylor reminds him of Lyndon Johnson, and he believes that Taylor will become a great African leader. Ramsey Clark admires Taylor personally and points out that he went to war against the repressive Doe regime, which had received close to half a billion dollars in aid and military assistance from the Reagan Administration.
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Those who sent him know themselves. The big hand. They know everything. He did not come here alone. Taylor was in prison in the US … and all of a sudden, he was in Monrovia. How did he get out of a US prison? How was he able to escape?
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Taylor fled Liberia after President Doe accused him of stealing millions of dollars from state coffers. He was arrested and was due for extradition to Liberia. It is noteworthy that Taylor’s lawyer, Ramsey, one of the best in the country, was attorney general under Jimmy Carter. Taylor was incarcerated at a federal prison in Massachusetts, one of the most secure. It seems to me especially difficult to escape from a federal prison…
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I believe that Taylor was nothing but a pawn in this game. The US was against Libya, but at the same time was eager to overthrow Doe. It is for this reason that they needed an ally, and authorised Taylor going to Libya for training to fight these people. Even before he triumphed and became president, he was in constant contact with the US.
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Thomas Sankara and the new Africa renaissance | Pambazuka News - 0 views
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Sankara was the first apostle of the African Renaissance, taken over and perfected by former President Thabo Mbeki of South Africa.
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Thus will they do useful work by not bringing bad governance of the ousted regime to parasitize the popular uprising
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But the people did better than the Schumpeterian innovator, which breaks with the routine, by questioning private property for at least two days.
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Economic calculation should be made with caution as there were, there are and is calculated to serve a cause. The calculation of economists only considered the destruction of property of regime officials and those of their allies. What about the people assets? Quid unproductive expenditure to repress the people?
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