ARTICLE: Land Grabbing Becomes a Global Phenomenon | Antony Loewenstein for farmlandgrab.org and New Matilda
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Antony Loewenstein for farmlandgrab.org and New Matilda
July 10, 2015
American photographer Jane Baldwin has been visiting the Omo River for a decade, documenting the gradual erosion of local rights, and she tells me via email that foreign investors threaten “self-sustaining agro-pastoral communities.” A local woman from the Nyangatom tribe, who can’t be named due to threats against her life, says that, “They are taking this river to sell the hydroelectric power. We say to them, if this river is taken from us, we might as well kill ourselves so we won’t starve to death. If you decide to make a dam there, before you start the dam, you better come here and kill us all.