Hapa nimekubaliana nawe mkuu,Sisi tupo hapa kwa ajili ya masilahi ya watanzania kwa ujumla na sio kupinga sirikali.Siku itayofika sirikali yetu ipo swafi kabisa basi hapa utaanza kuona mapongezi kwao au siyo wajameni...so twende kazinajua watu wanapenda habari za ufisadi na kashfa lakini kama kuna kitu muhimu cha kujiandaa nacho ni hili suala la njaa. Najua wengi tumeshiba huku tuliko na hatuna wasiwasi tunakoromea mafisadi na kumkoma nyani giledi kutoka katika comfort of our cozy rooms and comfortable lifestyles.
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Food prices to surge higher, UN report warnsNdugu zangu, kuna uwezekano mkubwa kwamba itakapofika kiangazi mwaka huu, Taifa letu linaweza kujikuta kwenye upungufu mkubwa wa chakula ambao siyo tu unatishia maisha ya watu wetu bali pia unashusha hadhi na utu wa mwanadamu. Hakuna kitu kinachomdhalilisha mwanadamu na kuweza kumfanya awe mtu kama njaa.
Ni njaa ndiyo inayoweza kumfanya mtu aukane urithi wake wa kwanza kama alivyofanya Esau na ni njaa ambayo ilikuwa inatumika tangu enzi za kale kama silaha ya mwisho ya vita ambayo inalazimisha watu kusalimu amri.
Tanzania tutakabiliwa na njaa ambayo chanzo chake si ukame. Mara nyingi (kama siyo zote) njaa husababishwa na ukame na vita. Hata hivyo njaa ambayo naweza kuiangalia toka mbali na inayosogelea kama simba anyatiaye haitokani na mambo hayo bali makubwa mawili.
a. Kupanda kwa bei ya chakula duniani.
Habari za leo ni kuwa bei ya chakula duniani imepanda kwa haraka kuliko wakati wowote ule na hivyo kusababisha ugumu wa kupatikana kwa chakula. Yaliyotokea Haiti na Misri siku chache zilizopita ni dalili ya ubaya wa hali hiyo. Kwa wale walioko Dar au maeneo yenye masoko ya kudumu na kwenye mialo mbalimbali kanda ya ziwa wanaweza kutusaidia kutuambia kama kumeanza kutokea mabadiliko yanayoonekana ya bei ya chakula siku hizi chache zilizopita.
b. Mvua ya masika.
Hata hivyo naamini kwa upande wa Tanzania kitakachosababisha njaa sana ni hii mvua ambayo imeharibu mashamba na mazao ya watu kiasi kwamba baadhi ya maeneo ambayo kwa kawaida yana chakula cha kutosha yanaweza kujikuta yanahamia mwaka huu. Kama mpunga wa Kyela utakuwa umeathirika kama Dr. Mwakyembe alivyosema kwenye mahojiano yake nami kuna uwezekano kuwa Mwaka huu bei ya Mchele nayo itapanda na hivyo kufanya nafaka hiyo ianze kuwa adimu na kupatikana kwa wachache.
Maeneo ambayo mchele ndiyo chakula kikuu na pia zao la biashara watajikuta wanakabiliwa na upungufu wa fedha za kununulia hata vitu vingine na hivyo kusubiri chakula cha misaada.
Kwa vile tunajua haya yote na ziada; tufanye nini ili tujiandae na njaa ijayo?
🙂 🙂 😀 Pundit, YOU ARE ONE FUNNY............F....., i assure you, this is one of the fewest posts that i have had the loudest outburst of laughter from reading it..... absolutely sick mad...... lol, metaphorically you somewhat penetrated my cranium and managed to set off part of my brain that constantly feed on this kind of Armageddonian cogitations as it was just about to snooze. 🙂Sie tuna cha kufanya tena? Si tunasubiri "international pressure" kama alivyojisemea PM Pinda?
Futurology is risky business, but I would bet on whoever can come up with a system to engineer the body to produce less waste and use 95% plus of our intake, then move to cheap ndonge (vitamins/proteins/minerals energy, then we will all eat cardboard (disguised as special biscuits) for roughage) and patent the whole bizz to be the first trillionaire.
I know there will be a nostalgic feeling about food, taste and smell, but it will be so expensive only the super rich will afford to eat.
I must be sounding like one of A.C. Clarke's doomsday prediction, but 200 years from now, the soil polluted, the temperature sky high, rivers full of toxins, the ozone hole almost not a hole anymore who is to say this won't become a reality?
What am I trying to do forecasting 200 years while we don't know from where will the next budget come.
Source: http://allafrica.com/stories/200804040246.htmlRussia Pledges U.S$500 Million in Dev't Assistance on Continent
The Daily Monitor (Addis Ababa)
4 April 2008
Posted to the web 4 April 2008
Addis Ababa
The Russian Federation is to provide development assistance amounting to over 500 million USD in Africa, one of the main priorities of the Russian foreign policy, the country's ambassador said on Wednesday.
Ambassador of the Russian Federation to Ethiopia M. Afanasiev made the announcement at the first session of the joint annual meeting of the African Union (AU) and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA).
"Russia is firmly attached to the goals and principles of new partnership with Africa, actively participates in the complex assistance to the continent on bilateral basis and within existing international mechanisms, and particularly in "G8"," the ambassador said in a statement issued on the occasion.
The ambassador noted that activity of the ECA was one of the great interests to the Russian Federation which emphasizes the "Commission's unique role as one of the most representative body for Africa and its mandate as the main economic and social development centre within the UN system." He said the Russian Federation believes that the main international objective was to help African countries achieve the UN-set Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
"The Russian Federation supports all efforts made on the Africa continent, particularly within ECA to reach the MDGs, on the basis of global partnership, as outlined in Millennium Declaration Monterrey Consensus and outcome document of World Summit 2005," he said.
Russian contribution to the Debt Relief Initiative for heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) was the biggest among all donors in terms of its share in GDP, and in absolute value, the country is the third.
Russia has written off USD 16 billion of African debt and it plans to write off another half billion debt this year, according to the ambassador.
He said during its presidency in the G8, the Russian Federation initiated several measures of global nature aimed at strengthening the system of prevention of resistance to infectious diseases.
According to the ambassador, Russian has decided to make contribution of USD 20 million in 2008-2009 for realization the World /bank programme to combat malaria in Africa.
"We are sure that achievement of targets indicated in ECA Strategies Frameworks for 2010-2011 will contribute significantly to economic grows and prosperity of all African region, and will create necessary conditions for valuable integration of this region in international economic activity," the ambassador said.
Source: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080414.wfood14/BNStory/InternationalSoaring food prices now top threat, IMF says
KEVIN CARMICHAEL
From Monday's Globe and Mail
April 14, 2008 at 4:42 AM EDT
WASHINGTON - The global food crisis has pushed aside fears of a recession and mounting banking woes as top priority for the world's economic leaders.
Ministers representing 185 countries agreed on the weekend that soaring food prices threaten global calamity and pledged to co-operate on a solution to save the world's poorest people from starvation. But that solution remains elusive.
The finance ministers and central bank governors who oversee the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank left Washington yesterday without a definitive response to agricultural prices that have surged 48 per cent since the end of 2006, sparking a wave of hoarding and riots throughout the developing world.
"If food prices go on as they are today, then the consequences on the population in a large set of countries, including Africa, but not only Africa, will be horrific," IMF managing director Dominque Struass-Kahn said at a press conference. "Hundreds of thousands of people will be starving. Children will suffer from malnutrition, with consequences on all of their lives."
That level of concern didn't translate into pledges for more food aid or concrete ideas about how food inflation might be reversed.
The IMF failed to agree on a response, beyond a pledge to work with its sister organization, the World Bank, and others in an "integrated response through policy advice and financial support."
The committee of ministers that directs the work of the World Bank, led by Mexican Finance Minister Agustin Carstens, said the bank and the fund should stand ready to provide "timely policy and financial support" to the most vulnerable countries. It also endorsed a plan by World Bank President Robert Zoellick to boost agricultural productivity in poorer countries, and urged donors to respond to the United Nations' call for an immediate $500-billion (U.S.) in extra food aid.
Mr. Zoellick said only about half of that money has been committed. No new pledges came amid the alarm and worry expressed by finance ministers from some of the world's wealthiest countries.
"It's good to see the political spotlight on the food crisis, but concern is no substitute for cold hard cash," Oxfam International, the global poverty fighter, said in a statement.
The severity of the issue seemed to creep up on officials from the Group of Seven industrial countries, which account for two-thirds of the world's economy and represents the IMF's and World Bank's largest shareholders.
The G7 - the U.S., Japan, Germany, the U.K., France, Italy and Canada - went into the weekend meetings gripped by the global credit crisis, which IMF economists estimate could result in losses approaching $1-trillion.
The G7's four-page statement issued after its gathering Friday made no mention of the food issue beyond a reference to the risk "high oil and commodity prices" posed to the world economy.
Instead, U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, European Central Bank Governor Jean-Claude Trichet and the other members of the group focused on ending turmoil in financial markets. They promised to implement a series of regulatory changes over the next 100 days aimed at restoring confidence in a system shaken by the collapse of the U.S. subprime mortgage market last year.
In an interview, Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney said governments are considering boosting food aid and "broader" food-policy strategies.
"It's a serious issue," Mr. Carney said. "There is concern."
The Canadian government called on the IMF to use provisions in its statutes to help the hardest hit nations pay for food imports. Ottawa also urged the World Bank and other regional development institutions to co-operate to fund projects that boost agricultural production and make poor nations more energy efficient.
Finance ministers weren't the only ones caught off guard by the prominence of concern over food prices at the meetings, which have in recent years been more concerned about uneven trade flows between rich and developing countries, China's rigid exchange-rate policies and efforts to give poorer nations more say in the running of the institutions.
"I'm surprised by the prominence of food prices," said Elizabeth Stuart, a senior policy adviser at Oxfam, who expected to be spending more time talking about climate change.
In fact, advocates of polices to wean industrial economies off oil found themselves on the defensive, as some countries blamed rich-world policies that encourage the production of fuel from corn, canola and other grains as the biggest contributor to the surging cost of farm products.
Mr. Strauss-Kahn said some ministers told him that using foodstuffs to make fuel amounted to a "crime against humanity."
The World Bank did announce that it will send $10-million in food aid to Haiti, whose prime minister was dismissed on Saturday amid anger over food prices.
Mr. Zoellick pushed the politicians who run his institution to turn their new-found awareness of the risks posed by food prices into action.
If nothing is done, 100 million people will be shoved deeper into poverty, he said. "It remains urgent that governments step up."
mwanakijiji usianze kuwatisha watu. Tunachokitengo cha Maafa katika ofisi hii, na kinajiandaa kwa lolote litakalokuwa. Mzee anafahamu matatizo yaliyoko nyanda za juu kusini na wiki chache zijazo utatangazwa mkakati wa kujiandaa na tatizo la chakula na njaa.
asante.
NJAA YAJA, BEI YA MAFUTA JUU, SGR should be full; akiba ya mafuta iwe imejaa; chakula kianze kusogezwa mikoa ya kusini na pembezoni... mtandao wa misaada uwekwe tayari sasa. Tusije tukawa kama wale wanawali kumi!!
Taifa lisilojiandaa kwa majanga, linajiandaa kwa maafa. Rais Kikwete aitishe kikao cha dharura cha baraza lake na wadau wengine (wafanyabiashara n.k) ili kwa pamoja wapange mkakati wa kupigana na njaa. Hakuna adui anayedhalilisha utu wa mwanadamu kama njaa..
chonde chonde...!