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| AFRICABIZ
VOL 2 - ISSUE: 121
January
15 - April 14, 2011
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Issue
Editor: Dr. Bienvenu-Magloire Quenum
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WORD FROM THE EDITOR
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Dear visitor and international investor,
We
warmly welcome you, if this is
your first visit to Africabiz
Online - The ultimate newsletter
on trading and investing in 49
sub-Saharan African countries.
If you are a regular and faithful
reader, welcome back.
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THE POLITICAL SNAFU IN IVORY COAST: THE CONSEQUENCE OF THE MISLEADING IVOIRITE
CONCEPT
For
all tuned to the political situation
in Ivory Coast, the current post
electoral dispute over who won
the second leg of the presidential
ballot of November 28, 2010 - Alassane
Dramane Ouattara or Laurent Gbagbo,
is an embarrassing amazement.
According
to enacted texts, rules and procedures
accepted by all parties - click
here for more, Alassane Dramane
Ouattara is the only true winner.
His victory recognized by the International
Community, and African countries's
continental and regional organizations.
Nevertheless, on the date of this
writing - January 14, 2011, quite
one month and a half after the
proclamation of the results, the
country is still in political limbo,
with two head of states, and two
prime ministers appointed respectively
by each contender.
Indeed, the
former head of state, Laurent Gbagbo,
who lost the election by a margin
of 8 points in favor of Ouattara,
is hanging on.
He is adamantly convinced against
all odds that he is the winner,
and is using all the gimmicks of
a dictator - assassination of opponents,
and peaceful political rallies
brutal repression, to hijack the
election.
He is not listening to anyone who
advises him to hand over the state
power to Alassane Dramane Ouattara.
To understand what is evolving
now in Ivory Coast, one has to
go back to the early 1990s, when
disturbance and divisive seeds
were sawn,
starting with the political rivalry
between Alassane Ouattara
and Henri Konan Bedie, fighting
to reach the position of President
of Ivory Coast. .
The reason several Africabiz Online's
issues [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11] have
been dedicated to the matter, is
that Ivory Coast is an economic
powerhouse in West Africa UEOMOA
which state-members are Benin, Niger, Burkina-Faso, Mali, Senegal, Guinea-Bissau,
and Togo -
that have XOF - Franc CFA as a
single common currency. Table below
outlines Ivory Coast's contribution
(in million FCFA)
within the economic system of UEOMOA.
| Contribution
to the UEMOA Economy |
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2004 |
2005 |
2006 |
2007 |
2008 |
2009 |
| Ivory Coast |
1937,2 |
2080,9 |
2297,8 |
2836,5 |
2997,5 |
3127 |
| Others |
5979,8 |
6434,5 |
7170,8 |
8511,6 |
9327,2 |
9704,0 |
| % Ivory Coast |
32,4 |
32,34 |
32,0 |
33,33 |
32,14 |
32,22 |
During
the the early years of the
1980s, under the leadership
of the
founding father Houphouet
Boigny, the contribution
was around 70%. That high
level of contribution to
the economy of the 8 member-states,
is the reason why UEOMOA's
central bank (BCEAO)
head management had, ever
since the inception of the
organization, in 1962, been
awarded to Ivory Coast.
The "remarkable"
economic performance,
is based on agriculture development
- Ivory Coast is one of the
world's largest producer
and exporter of coffee, cocoa
beans, and palm oil. The country
enjoyed twenty five years of
positive economic growth from
1960 to 1985. That lengthy period
of economic performance steadily
increased the country's per
capita GNP to up to US$ 1,200
(1999) against an average
of US$ 400 in surrounding
countries.
The economic "prowess", did not, however, translated
into riches for all. And now, due the the political
disturbances of past two decades, the lack of vision,
and the lack of a well designed economic strategy to
transform raw agricultural productions into added valued
industrial produces, capable of triggering
double-digit
growth rate, above mentioned 1999's GNP
level is now a fade memory for the vast majority of
Ivory Coast people.
In short, the past prosperity of
the 1960-1985 period is gone.
Indeed, today,
most Ivorians
cannot afford two substantial meals (with fish or
meat proteins) a day, and several millions are eating
a meal every two day - as occurring in
most African countries.
10 years ago, in a paper titled, The Collapse
of Ivory Coast / The Example of Devastating Consequences
Triggered by Misleading Concepts and Bad Management,
available
here, the following had been stated:
"As
we all know, nothing
in human life happens
on the sudden. Diseases,
crucial political events,
victories in sports competitions,
wars, and divorces, etc.;
every occurrence under
the sun has hidden history
and long lasting causes.
The history and hidden
causes behind the collapse
of Ivory Coast are closely
linked to the adoption
ten years ago, in 1993,
and the subsequent implementation
of a
nationalistic concept named
Ivoirité."
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We
are now witnessing, hopefully,
the final shudders of the
Ivoirité concept,
because we do not think that
Machiavel will win in Ivory
Coast, meaning Gbagbo prevailing
over Ouattara, hijacking the election.
Otherwise,
it will be a profound political
disaster for the continent,
opening the way for the emergence
of brutal dictators not at
all concerned with the well
being of the populations,
but seeking power for the
sake of power.
Click
here to read about Facts
to Understand the Post Electoral
Imbroglio in Ivory Coast
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Several business opportunities - component parts of the Integrated Developing Scheme described in Africans, Stop Being Poor! are listed in following table.
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1-SHEA BUTTER (5,
6, 7,
11, 12,
13)
2- BLUE GOLD (14,
15, 16,
17, 18,
19)
3- FREEZE-DRIED PAPAIN (20,
21, 22
and here)
4- KENAF (23,
24)
5- VEGETABLE OIL (25,
26, 27,
28)
6- CEREALS (30,
31, 32,
33)
7- FRUITS (34,
35, 36,
37, 38,
39, 40,
42, 43,
44, 45,
46)
8- ESSENTIAL OILS (47,
48, 49,
50, 51,
52)
9- ROOTS & TUBERS (54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64) |
10- FOWL BREEDING (66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76)
11- FISH FARMING (78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87)
12- BIOMASS ENERGY (89, 90, 91, 92)
13- SUGAR
CANE & PRODUCTS (93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98,
99/100, 101, 102)
14- LIVESTOCK (103,
104,
105,
106,
107,
108,
109, 110,
111,
112
15- MISCELLANEOUS (113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 119, 120, 121, 122 |
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MISCELLANEOUS SERIES:INTRODUCTION TO THE IMPORTANCE
OF STARCH IN FOOD INDUSTRY
With
this delivery starts a new series about the importance of starch in food industry,
to show how it is an absolute necessity for an emerging country, to have starch
manufacturing included into its strategic development scheme. The subject had
long ago been briefly exposed in the series about Roots and Tubers [54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64],
and Cereals [30,
31, 32,
33]
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DEFINITION
1.
Starch is a naturally abundant nutrient carbohydrate, (C6H10O5)n,
found chiefly in the seeds, fruits, tubers, roots, and in stem pith
of plants, notably in corn, potatoes, wheat, and rice, and varying
widely in appearance according to source but commonly prepared as a
white amorphous tasteless powder.
2. Any of various substances, such as natural starch, used to stiffen
cloth, as in laundering.
3. Starches Foods having a high content of starch, as rice, breads, and
potatoes. [Source]
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STARCH IS EVERYWHERE, IN FOODS, AND USED TO PRODUCE INUMERABLE INDUSTRIAL
PRODUCTS
The diagram available
at this link highlights the importance of starch in food industry
and other general industrial productions - such as biscuits, tapioca, sorbitol,
gari, farinha, foufou, attieke, bio-plastic, drilling products, textiles, composites. Etc.
There are two main classes of starch-based products: 1- Unmodified or native
starch. 2- Physical, chemical or biological Modified starches for
industrial purposes to producing sweeteners, including high fructose syrup,
glucose
(dextrin, monosodium glutamate, pharmaceuticals;) iso-glucose (a
combined syrup of glucose and fructose). For
more on Cassava Starch click here
Above two paragraphs short list food and other industrial products originating
from Starch. And one can see that including starch manufacturing in the development
scheme is a must have strategy for emerging country. It is the sure and absolute
economic catalyst to sustaining double-digit growth-rate over
a lengthy period of minimum 10 years, and create riches for all
- as described in Strategy
for African Countries.
So, several deliveries following this current would be dedicated to the
production of some of above listed food and industrial produces.
| MORE ON THE
STARCH INDUSTRY |
1- A Practical Treatise on the Manufacture of Starch
Glucose, Starch-Sugar, and Dextrine. Illustrated by 58 Engravings (1881)
by Julius Frankel - Paperback (Aug 10, 2009)
2- The
Principal Starches Used as Food
by W. Griffiths - Paperback (Oct 21, 2009)
3- The World Market for Residues
Resulting from the Manufacture of Starch
by Icon Group - Paperback (Sep 30, 2008)
4- Chemistry and Technology of Starch
by James N. BeMiller and Roy L. Whistler - Hardcover (Mar 23, 2009)
5- Starches:
Characterization, Properties, and Applications
by Andrea Bertolini - Hardcover (Dec 7. 2009)
6- Industrial uses of Starch and its Derivatives
by R. W. Radley - Hardcover (Spt. 30, 1976)
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7- Starch Madness
by Richard L. Heinrich - Paperback (Nov. 1998)
8- Handbook of Starch Hydrolysis Products
And Their Derivatives
by S. Z. Dziedzic and M.W. Kearsley - Hardcover (Dec 31, 1995)
9- Starches handbook
by David J., Thomas and Williams A. Atwell - Paperback (Feb 1, 1998)
10- Starch:
Basic Science to Technology
Advance in Food and Nutrition Research
by Mirta Noemi Sivak, Jack Preiss, and Steve Taylor - Hardcover (Aug 3, 1998)
11- The 2009-2014 World Outlook
For Modified Corn and Sorghum Starch, and Dextrine
by Icon Group - Paperback (Sep 26, 2008)
12- Starch in Food
Structure, Function and Applications
by Ann-Charlotte Eliasson- Hardcover (Sep 20, 2004) |
Adobe
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