What's For Dinner?

Tonight's Guest: Sanusha Naidu (part 1) Infrastructure development in Africa has always favored extractive industries and supported agriculture for export commodities. New energy, water, and transportation infrastructure proposed by leading world economic bodies is similar, except project structuring may leave African small farmers even worse off. Development finance institutions propose using public-private partnerships and making projects an asset class (think when food was speculated on as a commodity in 2008). A specialist on China and emerging powers at Fahamu, Sanusha Naidu works to empower social justice movements to address opportunities and threats posed by competition among countries and institutions to invest in African economies. She opened recent Johannesburg meetings to strategize about civil society responses to the newest thrust for infrastructure development in Africa.