FOOD INSECURITY IN TANZANIA: ARE ELITES HAVING HANDS ON?

Tanzania is among Sub-Sahara African countries facing food shortage in many of her regions. There are several reasons given by key actors in agriculture on this crisis. The biggest one is prolonged drought triggered by environmental destruction. Without rains about 80% Tanzanians, who usually depend on rain fed agriculture, become jobless. Their peace and restfulness then depends on the to the Government support.

A respected Tanzanian columnist in Swahili weekly, RAI, has different opinion about the subject. To him hunger crisis has nothing to do with environment and drought. These are symptoms of a deeply burred root problem that most people fear to mention and solve. He mentions the problem to be an existing bond between elites in developing countries and their counterparts in developing countries. According to this journalist, the two groups have formed the so called “Multi-national Elites Coalition" that is responsible for most of sufferings in the so called third world countries.