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Hunger Is Political : Aid, Debt, and the Architecture of Food Dependency
Host Tinatswe Mhaka sits down with Zoe Samudzi to talk about food as a political weapon, in Gaza and in Zimbabwe alike. Gaza's perennial crop areas have been destroyed at devastating scale, its agricultural wells razed, its livestock sector collapsed. African countries spend billions each year importing food they were once capable of growing. Zoe and Tinatswe trace the mechanisms behind both, structural adjustment, export agriculture mandates, bombed farmland, blockades, and land dispossession that never fully got undone after independence. Different tools, same question, who controls whether…
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