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With € 600,000 in development money (and a multitude of private money), the Dutch farmer Teuben built a nice business in Ethiopia. Many Oromo farmers who had to make that grazed their cattle. It was ‘communal land’, so no one, according to the government, who sold the land to the Dutchman. In December 2015, the company burned and destroyed by 7000 or Oromo people.
When unrest in Addis Ababa police recently seized hard: Human Rights Watch lists of more than 150 victims, and the EU parliament has condemned the police action. The conflict between the Oromo and their government is also a problem for the Netherlands: the Dutch farmer has lost all his money and wants to recover any damages from the Ethiopian government. The embassy supports him in this, and wants to return the subsidies. But is that right, the Dutch government have to step in here?
Employee vd Heuvel from the Dutch embassy in Ethiopia: “Europe does not ‘land-grabbing’ . And while the above agricultural project came about through his mediation.
Also in other countries (total 6.6 million) went to large farms, often in disputed territories. The grants fall within the Dutch policy: No ‘aid’ but ‘trade’ . Economic development by Dutch companies and trade will continue to bring developing countries according Ploumen. “Trade is the engine of progress and development.” At the same time, there is no money for relief, while threatening famine again. Haverkort Cordaid provided in a camp 20 (!) Liters of water per family for four days, and medicine, but the money is now practically. A secondary action will again be needed.
Meanwhile, other companies also benefit from subsidies for business. A balloonist in Ethiopia was 250,000 grant to create a tourist attraction which employs seven Ethiopians. Heineken had since 2011 2 million to encourage the barley cultivation by smallholders. (According to an employee would have also invested without the grant). Heineken has 2 Ethiopian breweries acquired – and 690 people laid off because of modernization – and turnover has risen considerably. The profit is not (yet) have increased due to the investments. The two acquired breweries pay less income tax: over 1 million instead of the more than 2 million prior to the acquisition, know to tell a member of the IMF. (The Ethiopian Revenue and the Ethiopian Chamber of Commerce have no idea how much tax has been paid:. “No information”) It’s a “lose-lose-win situation”: less labor and fewer tax by Ethiopia, more production for Heineken .
An employee of the Inspectorate of Development Zembla says that according to the most recent report (2013), only 20% of the known in the prior period spent 2.5 billion how the projects are finished, and 20% provide a mixed picture on. “Some things were quite effective, others are not.”
See here Zembla: Dutch Trading of March 23, 2016, for more information about the Dutch ‘help’ to Ethiopia.
Here reply to the broadcast in the magazine Resource , (Wageningen University) that was sent to us.
Editor’s Note: Thanks for the information, very useful. The fact remains that “This land was communally owned and was allocated to him by the government. “And if 7,000 people participate in the destruction then there is something wrong. It turns out positive in many cases (from Dutch / Wageningen point of view) is nice, good to hear.In many cases, the truth probably lies in the middle. But the starting point beat in this case not (land communally owned). It continues to rot for the Dutch farmer. And the policies in the field of development cooperation is currently very one-sided.
Source: http://aardeboerconsument.nl/ethiopie-nederlandse-boer-vele-oromo-boeren
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