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    Thr eats to Develo ping Economi es & Civil Disor der fromMig rants

    There is growing recognition that the number of economic migrants is growing to levels that

    are of great concern to host countries and that the probable consequences of this might be

    greater stress on host civil authorities to control outbreaks of civil disorder; due often to

    competition for food and employment. This growth in economic migrants is out of line with

    the historical need of seasonal migrants that has been part of the world economy for many

    generations and these newer movements produce non-viable migrants that have nomeans of surviving in a host country and can be termed as welfare parasites1 in economies

    that cannot hope to cater for the needs.

    Throughout Asia, Africa, South America and Europe, low income families are on the move

    and in the international economic problems of the first two decades of the 21st century, it

    can be expected that migration of low income and blue collar workers will only increase and

    this will put great strain on the basic resources of host countries for housing, employment

    and social services.

    The majority of migrants that find work do so in the black or informal economy and

    although this may be beneficial to some employers and temporary employees alike, it takes

    a significant amount of prospective revenue away from the government purses. Revenues

    that (in part) would be used to provide the social and other services that can be expected.

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    The map above shows the general pattern of migration as in 2008 (From the CIA World

    Fact-book) and gives clear indications from where migrants are leaving and the most

    popular areas that they are heading towards.

    The s easonal migrant :

    As has been stated, seasonal migrants have benefitted certain industries (mostly

    agriculture) at times when the labour requirement is high and disposable at the end of a

    given season. Traditionally the seasonal migrant has returned to the traditional home area2

    with sufficient income gained to be able to better ensure survival of the family.

    A recent problem associated with this, is that the number of people offering themselves as

    seasonal migrants has risen beyond the ability of the seasonal occupational opportunity

    requirement and this leaves a surplus that do not have sufficient funds to be able to return

    to the traditional home area. It is at this stage that a potential seasonal migrant becomes a

    welfare parasite.

    The s urvivalist migrant :

    Usually married with children and struggling to financially provide for the family within a

    home area and dependent on casual employment. Is attracted by opportunities heard of

    through gossip or media speculation and takes a chance of gaining employment outside ofthe traditional home area, with the intention of remitting monies home.

    Should this form of migrant successfully gain employment, they send for their immediate

    family,3 although the employment situation may not be termed as having longevity. The

    situation may arise where the migrant is unable to provide sufficiently for the immediate

    family and thus, ends up in the same situation as before they left the traditional home area;

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    without the ability to request assistance from an extended family4. At this time, the

    survivalist economic migrant becomes a welfare parasite.

    The o pportunistic migrant :

    Usually unmarried, having finished secondary or college level education and not seeing any

    opportunity in the traditional home area for betterment. Freelance and may not have any

    saleable skills in a new environment. For the most part the potential opportunities are for

    self improvement with possibly, a secondary intention to remit monies to family intraditional home area. In one perspective some of the opportunistic migrants could be

    termed as social migrants.

    Although reasonably educated this type of migrant may find that he/she is unable to

    compete with the host population in jobs that would normally go to reasonably educated

    people and he/she takes on menial tasks in order to provide an income for day-to-day living.

    Determination to survive by any means may involve illegal activities although this type of

    migrant is less likely to become a welfare parasite.

    It is unsure if enlisting in one of the United States of Americas armed forces is still a way to

    American citizenship, but this has been a way of migrating for many in favoured countries.

    Contacts:

    Many new migrants have family or other contacts in host countries and are encouraged by

    these to join them and start a new life. The host may have endured a period of difficulty at

    the start but has since accomplished a reasonable level of stability and expects the same

    for the new migrant. However, as the recent economic problems have highlighted,

    situations in host countries are not the same and competition for any level of work is very

    high. From this, the migrant becomes a parasite; both on the host acquaintance and on the

    host government and from this, can become involved within the black economy and illegal

    activities.

    Understanding the need to migrate is important as is the need to look at both rural and

    urban migration. Although (Map B) shows the percentage of people living on less than

    US$1.25 a day, many rural families are able to provide the basic food requirements on this

    amount of money although there is no regular disposable income nor is the amount of

    money earned regular; often depending on the seasons. Where, as in the urban areas, there

    is strong competition for employment opportunity and the ability to forage for food is

    unavailable is where the greatest concerns lay. However, the inflationary cost of producing

    food crops drives many rural (potential) wage earners into the urban areas to further add to

    the competition for employment.

    The basic need for employment is to put food on the table and be able to have disposableincome for the necessities of schooling, healthcare and other essentials and the high cost of

    school requisites is a heavy burden.

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    Map B shows areas where the populations live on less than US$1.25 a day and therefore

    the most likely source of migrants. However, most migration in developing countries is

    internal and this complicates the ability of developing economies to be able to respond to

    the needs in social and other services. It is also in these areas where the informal economy

    is more active that a formal economy and given a governments poor ability to enforce

    revenue collection this deprives these areas of social and other service provision.

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    Map C shows the areas where the majority of the undernourished live and when aligned to

    map B gives a clearer indication of the source of migrants. Although for many years

    development projects have been ongoing in the poorest countries, these have made little

    significant impact on local situations and have done nothing to decrease the number of

    internal migrants within Africa or Asia. External migration has had a significant impact in

    Europe and South America with Western Europe, America, Canada and Australia absorbing

    the majority of external migrants.

    Similarities in immigrant lifestyles:

    The majority of economic migrants are to be found in the areas that house the poorest

    members of society, frequenting the local markets for cheap food to be taken back to

    crowded accommodation with few sanitary services. Many of these areas are volatile with

    excesses in prostitution, alcohol abuse, petty violence, petty theft gambling and abuse of

    women. In this situation it is often necessary to take a side in arguments and the migrants

    become targets of abuse from others in the same economic situation and are usually

    blamed for [a] causing a situation or [b] exacerbating a situation. Employment

    opportunities, accommodation shortages, competition for education places for their children

    and access to social and health services are examples of blame passed on by residents and

    these create volatile situations. Although these are primary, in amongst these complaints isfood availability and price and the shortages and subsequent increases in price are often

    blamed on the migrants as they have swelled the buyers market when basic food resources

    (sellers market) are limited. In these areas, other than a few charitable organisations,

    healthcare and education are not free as is understood in developed countries and few if

    any have medical insurance.

    These areas have their own economic structures with a dependence on black market

    economies dealing with drugs, prostitution and petty crime and in general, few authorities

    have any interest in the communities and the police usually steer a wide path around them;

    unless there is an outbreak of violence, which they tend to react to with violence. It is of

    little wonder then that these communities are volatile and become anti-establishment and

    open to anti-authority groups.

    As in any concern, there are causes and effects and both have economic consequences and

    also economic roots. One type of economic migrant leaves a home area to seek

    opportunities of employment and the ability to provide for a family, be the family with them

    or remaining in the traditional home area. Another type is single and seeks opportunities in

    order to [a] improve their personal status or [b], to help provide for family members in the

    traditional home area. The single migrant is highly mobile and able to follow up potential

    opportunities for employment. Many of the single migrants have received a secondary level

    of education and the migrant has recognised that by staying in the traditional home area,

    their chance of progression is very limited and thus, in some way, an improved level of

    education may be responsible for the desire to migrate. A good example of this is the

    number of Filipinos that take up foreign domestic service posts in order to [a] gain a

    foothold in foreign places and [b] to support a family back in the Philippines. The number of

    Filipinos that have stayed abroad after the completion of a contract is not known, but part of

    the Philippines economy depends on the remittances sent home. These remittances pay for

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    the education of siblings and home improvements and some foreign economies have come

    to rely on this source of cheap labour.

    For decades seasonal migrants have provided labourers in agriculture and this has

    benefitted all and has provided cheap labour as and when required. Traditional migration

    has provided middle class urban areas with domestic and retail workers which have usually

    regulated its own numbers by the number of employment opportunities available. Likewise

    industry has, in the past benefitted from migrant labour in the low income sectors in mining,

    construction, heavy industry, domestic services and others and until recently these numbershave also been self regulating due to opportunities available for employment.

    During the last two decades, the number of professional (white collar workers) have added

    to the mass migration numbers, seeking greater opportunities in areas where their skills

    have usually found a market and these are usually welcomed by host communities. The

    problems associated with the migration of professional migrants have been two-fold; [a]

    they have drained home communities of their skills and left a hole in the development

    potential of their home areas and [b], as their numbers have increased in the host

    communities, they have created competition in professional labour markets for resident

    professionals and for newly graduated university students, seeking to get a foot on the

    professional ladder. In this, the most worrying factor is the drain on professional skills in ahome country and many governments are concerned about this and have put restrictions on

    those that have benefitted from a governments education system. As an example, many

    doctors and nurses have left developing countries to work in America and Europe leaving

    their home country health systems with major shortages in trained personnel, with the

    subsequent decline in service provision for the poorest sectors of communities.

    Add also the assortment of conflict migrants fleeing various areas of hostility throughout the

    world and the stress levels to local governments become conspicuous and these authorities

    will have to use increasingly limited resources to address the problems. One of the resulting

    consequences of the increase in all types of migrants is the perceived threat to security and

    security services. There is no doubt that migrants cause economical and civil stress in host

    communities and there is little that the host governments can do to counteract the

    problems that arise.

    Overall there is a high level of competition for employment, housing and where they exist,

    social services and there have been an increasing number clashes between migrants and

    residents for the finite employment opportunities and the social services. The presence of

    large numbers of migrants has also had an effect on the price of basic foods in areas where

    there are food shortages and these have created the most civil disorders and violence has

    erupted on several occasions and fatalities have occurred. Africa, Asia, South America, the

    Caribbean and other places have experienced these and are now highly concerned that

    these will increase and that civil authorities may need to take stronger action to not only

    avoid but also to control these outbreaks.

    It is to be expected that as the increasing effect of climate change takes a stronger hold,

    mass migration will occur and again the frailty of employment markets, basic food supplies,

    housing availability and limited social services will come under very great stress. The full

    effects of climate change will not be seen for many decades but changes in national

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    climates will create food and potable water shortages and there will be less food available

    on the international trading markets to make up local deficiencies and it is these growing

    deficiencies that will cause the authorities many problems.

    The growing number of impoverished families that migrate to and settle in the urban areas

    will cause great pressure and those communities that rely on rice as a major part of their

    staple food will find great shortages until such a time that improved varieties are made

    available to counteract the temperature rises and saltwater flooding that will destroy some

    areas of rice production areas.

    Migrants and the t hreats to security services :

    In the age of terrorism and subversive groups, a great fear of security services is the

    infiltration into migrant groups by members of terrorism groups. Posing as economic or

    conflict migrants it would be reasonably simple for subversives enter host countries and

    given the multitude of conflicts all over the world, security services are stretched to cover

    all immigrants.

    The threat to governments of infiltration by subversive groups increases stress on the small

    communities where migrants settle, as these areas are already under stress from the lack of

    employment opportunity and social services provision and are areas where subversives

    could support civil disturbances against governments.

    The occurrences of food related civil disorders are becoming more noticeable as headlines

    throughout the world and to some extent, are self feeding due to the publicity that they

    engender although the problems of food insecurity are the root cause. The rights of access

    to food and clean water are written into the United Nations bill of rights and yet there is still

    one third of the worlds population that does not have sufficient access and to this end,

    governments are responding more to the need to control riots than to the need to ensure

    reliable yet low cost sources of food. Although it is correct that the civil authorities must

    control any civil unrest situation, it is also correct to question the amount of aggression usedby the authorities in certain situations. Food and safe drinking water are basic rights and

    there may be a need for civil rights organisations to study these situations to determine if

    there is a need review the law in respect of civil rights issues regarding food and water

    shortages.

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    (These photographs shows the passion behind the riots over food shortages and food price increases)

    The addition of economic migrants to existing poor levels of employment and food stocks to

    communities already under stress does create tension within the poorest families and

    governments have ignored this factor and have failed to put in place systems by which the

    potential threats could be monitored. It is accepted that in many countries it is not possible

    for the authorities to control the movements of migrants, as having long borders it is not

    possible to stop migrants. It is simpler for island nations that only have to deal with internal

    migration. In South America, Africa, Asia and Europe where borders cannot be closed the

    uncontrolled movement of migrants does not allow governments to predict needs and in a

    global food recession, prices and thus populations are volatile.

    It is therefore clear that there are threats to the economies of developing countries whereby

    informal economies reduce government revenues, causes greater expenditure on civil

    disorder control, whilst not having sufficient social service budgets available to make the

    necessary provision for food and water.

    The authorities:

    Few governments can do much about the rapid inflation in food prices, especially in years of

    low yields, other than to create and maintain large stocks of reserves from purchases on the

    international commodity markets. This creates its own inflationary process by forcing

    governments to compete with each other for declining surpluses and other than subsidise

    the cost when distributing these purchases, governments can do little to control food prices.When governments leave market forces to reach their own levels they risk civil disturbances

    and subsidising basic food prices, governments have reduced budgets for use on other

    purposes.

    Most government authorities are used to some level of migrants entering their countries

    and have learned to tolerate a certain number, especially when it is economically useful,

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    such as in seasonal worker migrations. However, they are now expected to tolerate very

    high levels of economic migrants where they have areas of high industrial activity such as

    foundries, ore mines or an expanding yet labour intensive agriculture.

    Most of these countries have very basic sanitary, health and education services that do not

    cope well with the traditional populace and security services that (often corrupt) are

    expected to tend to the needs of the middle and upper classes. Under these circumstances

    there can be no surprises to learn that many of the shanty towns are no go areas and left

    to their own devices, unless a high profile crime has been committed.

    The governments have failed to study the causes behind economic migration and this might

    be because they have very limited means to be able to counteract the need to migrate.

    Rural poverty caused by a lack of agricultural development and a lack of employment

    opportunities is a major reason of economic migration, despite there being an existing need

    to increase agricultural production. It is also true, to some extent, that mechanisation in

    agricultural production has reduced the number of employment opportunities, adding to the

    need to migrate.

    Within the established industries of mining, component manufacturing and others; many of

    which are owned and managed by international conglomerates, the profits are exported andlittle is left to assist governments to invest. These international conglomerates negotiate tax

    levels that are lower that for indigenous businesses and even amongst these, tax evasion is

    rife. Therefore governments do not create sufficient income to be able to improve the social

    or sanitary services and certainly have little in the coffers to be able to invest in rural

    activities.

    Consideration should be given to a study to determine how many countries depend on the

    international development organisations to build and maintain their basic infrastructures

    and services. It will probably be found that the international community is responsible for a

    very significant percentage of investment and this creates a relief mentality within recipient

    governments and assumptions are made that the international community will always cometo the rescue and this can no longer be guaranteed in these times when there are many

    more situations where the international community is expected to respond. And, given the

    economic problems of many of the developed nations, not only is the need increasing, the

    ability to respond diminishes, despite protestations that international development is a

    priority; this being a paper tiger situation.

    Whilst the international conglomerates take income out of a country the international

    development organisations are expected to take responsibility for the basic investment with

    the result that any industry does not have to take any responsibility for utilising its profits

    locally. In the long term, the impoverished populations are likely to hold the international

    conglomerates responsible for their plight and governments will be forced to nationalise(and in some cases renationalise) the major asset resources.

    Civil rights issues:

    In most countries it is a citizens right to protest and the right of a citizen to expect basic

    rights is acknowledged, in most countries. In this context, during 2008 civil disturbances

    over food shortages and food prices have erupted in most continents within the poorest

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    sectors of the community and civil authorities have, in general, responded with some

    aggression. Some of these have been related to immigrants causing local population

    expansions where conditions are poor, employment opportunity scarce, overcrowding high;

    with social services nonexistent or poor and where the cost of basic foods has risen above a

    level whereby the poorest cannot afford to purchase sufficient to feed a family for many

    days. Even without being urged by anti-authority groups, the poorest members of the

    community have, in the first instance, turned their wrath on the market suppliers and then

    onto a government.

    We have seen a government (Philippines) bring in a law against hoarding food, punishable

    by long sentences in prison and it is likely that more countries will follow suit. It is necessary

    here to establish that many small farmers save the majority of their harvest for family use

    and also keep a certain amount for marketing at a time after harvest when prices have risen

    and it is necessary to determine to what level farmers may store basic food items, before it

    is considered as hoarding.

    We have seen several governments ban the exportation of high quality cereal grains and

    this has increased the incidences of food smuggling which is now becoming a very lucrative

    business and often in the control of the anti-authority groups; thus providing both economic

    and political power to some degree.

    Governments have ignored the need to monitor potential risk scenarios at community level

    where food, employment and social services are poor. Populations are losing confidence in

    governments ability to provide sufficient basic food resources, or of their ability to control

    profiteering or high inflationary price increases.

    Arising from these disturbances may be civil rights issues against those that have hoarded

    food or forced price increases or profiteering.

    The additional burden of global warming on migration :

    It is generally accepted that by 2050 that the air temperature of most areas will have risen

    by 4o Centigrade with some areas, mainly above 45o Latitude, the temperature rises will

    reach between 6o and 8o Centigrade. In general, Africa will experience a rise of 4o and 6o

    Centigrade and as this continent has many existing dry areas, the effect on agricultural

    production will likely cause mass migration from areas badly affected by agricultural losses

    and that supposed developed areas will attract the many millions that migrate. Together

    with food shortages economic situations will trigger mass migration, as employment

    opportunity will be the guiding factor and host communities will be unable to provide either

    the food or employment opportunities, leading to civil unrest that most authorities will be

    unable to cope with.

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    As can be seen from the map above, temperatures throughout Africa will average an

    increase of 4oC to 6oC, leaving many marginal areas arid and with a greater spread of

    desertification. The migration of people (and animals) will be haphazard and gather pace as

    resources are used up and wild life will be a greater risk in the need to feed families.

    Southern Europe will be subject to many changes as the temperatures increase, not least of

    these will be the reduction of agricultural production, replacing temperate and

    Mediterranean with tropical dry zone crops, whereas a rise in temperatures will be of some

    benefit to northern Europe and the Russian/Balkan states; allowing the colder areas above

    45o latitude to produce a great increase in cereal and other crops.

    It can only be stated that governments cannot respond to the needs to combat global

    climate change and constantly leave any decisions to a future government or future

    generations; although governments must avoid to major obstacles, when wishing to gain

    the support of populaces in order to make a change in attitudes. The permanent problem of

    not causing panic and not also causing complacency about global climate changes are

    significant in that, without a detailed manifest that is open, there will be an overall response

    of complacency and this must be avoided at all costs. Significant changes are not near

    enough to warrant a panic situation and it is only through the education system that apopulation can be instructed about these changes.

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    Desertification

    Additional to economic migration although a primary cause

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    Responding to the needs:

    However much it is essential that governments respond to the present and future needs to

    ensure that adequate food and water resources to their populations are made available, it is

    clear that individually governments do not and will not have the necessary means to be able

    to respond and that only a co-ordinated approach, with other governments can address any

    of the problems. It is also likely that there is only surface political will to globally respond toa global problem.

    It is also clear that there is neither time nor resources to be able to respond to the short

    term needs and that, as a consequence, one third of the worlds 6.9 billion population (2.3

    billion) is at risk from undernourishment in 2010 and that by 2040, 3.5 billion of the nearly

    10 billion people will be thus affected. Of the present 2.3 billion at risk, one billion are at

    serious risk and no organisation has the ability to respond at this time and this does not

    take into account a probable increase in this number, due to the greater incidences of

    conflict throughout the world, adding more conflict migrants to the problem of economic

    migrants.

    It is apparent to many observers that where the international conglomerates have

    established themselves to extract mineral and other resources, undernourishment is high;

    as it is in areas where political dynasties rule. Africa, where vast resources are being taken

    from the ground to feed the industrial and economic needs of developed countries; resident

    populations are generally impoverished and undernourished and this has occurred where

    local national governments have sold off their resources to the conglomerates. Following on

    from this, the conglomerates are feeding off the east European states in order to gain

    greater control of the resource markets in precious metals, oil, gas, basic minerals and land.

    Furthermore, with the low taxes paid by the conglomerates, local governments will not have

    sufficient revenue from these resources to be able to respond and that these limited

    revenue income is more likely to be spent on ensuring that security forces have sufficientfunding to control civil disturbances over food and water issues. Additional to the low

    revenue gained, the profits of the conglomerates are exported to home bases, thus denying

    the populaces to have a share in the bounty gained. Therefore, with tax revenues low,

    profits exported, increasing populations, climate change and growing civil disturbances,

    local governments are increasingly dependent on international government bodies for

    support and this at a time when the international bodies are under pressure to respond to

    conflicts and the affect on the refugees and migrants that these produce. The

    conglomerates do provide some very small development or relief projects, but these are

    more decoration to provide feel good factors to local governments and shareholders alike.

    The United Nations and other international bodies are incapable of putting togetherdevelopment packages that would address the needs, as is the African Union, the European

    Union or the United States of America and it is very unlikely that all of these together could

    either fund or organise and manage the responses required; even putting aside the

    economic inconveniences associated with co-ordinating a response, the ability of these

    several groups to politically agree is arguably fragile.

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    There are some measures that could be put in place to improve the prospects for

    development in the essential sources of food and potable water provision although these

    would prove to be unpopular to both government and private sectors.

    Nationalisation of the vast mineral and other resources,

    Higher taxation on mineral extraction,

    Lower taxation for the conglomerates in exchange for greater financial participation

    in development programmes,

    Establish, through the major international political unions (United Nations ,EuropeanUnion, United States of America and the African Union etc) a means by which,

    collectively they would devote a higher percentage of GDP to international food and

    potable water development projects,

    Establish, through the major international political unions (United Nations ,European

    Union, United States of America and the African Union etc) a means by which very

    large tracts of land can be put to agricultural production,

    With the advance of global climate change, investigate the potential of Canada,

    Russia and South America to open more land for crop production,

    Greater investment in desalination of seawater,

    However desirable some or all of the above may be, it is extremely unlikely that

    international unions will be unable to come together and act jointly to

    .

    Nationalisation of the vast mineral and other resources: Only by taking back control of

    the mineral extraction rights can governments hope to create the wealth required to put

    in place the essential food and potable water programmes that are needed, although by

    nationalising (or re-nationalising) these assets the governments would isolate the

    conglomerates and would probably spend many years in international courts fighting for

    ownership of the assets.

    Higher taxation on mineral extraction: By demanding higher taxes on mineral

    extraction, governments would equalise taxes on other revenue sources; as many of the

    conglomerates gain very favourable tax levels prior to investing in prospecting and

    extraction. The lower tax rates often go hand-in-hand with corruption.

    Lower taxation for the conglomerates in exchange for greater financial participationin development programmes: Given that the conglomerates already receive very

    favourable taxation levels, governments would risk losing considerable revenue sums

    should this be considered.

    Establish, through the major international political unions (United Nations ,European

    Union, United States of America, Islamic ?, and the African Union etc) a means by

    which, collectively they would devote a higher percentage of GDP to international

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    food and potable water development projects: This is one means of gathering extra

    resources to enable agricultural development programmes to be established, although is

    it probable that governments would be unlikely to increase the percentage levied against

    GDP, claiming prior need for national investment. Southern European countries will face

    harsh environmental conditions with an increase in global temperatures and will become

    more dependent on the northern European countries for many of their food sources and it

    is probable that the greater European Union economy will focus on European production,

    leaving less available for the undernourished in developing nations.

    Establish, through the major international political unions (United Nations, EuropeanUnion, United States of America and the African Union etc) a means by which very

    large tracts of land can be put to agricultural production: This has some merit,

    inasmuch that there will be large tracts of land available as the climate changes and that

    there are existing tracts of land that could be utilised. There are already signs that non-

    European governments and entrepreneurs are arranging purchases and leases of land for

    agricultural production and that, although this action shows some promise, the fate of the

    local residents in these areas has to be monitored. Large agricultural enterprises

    (industrial farms) must be able to produce, process and recycle residues for efficiency.

    With the advance of global climate change, investigate the potential of Canada,

    Russia and South America to open more land for crop production: As the climate gets

    warmer, large tracts of land in the northern hemisphere will be suitable for cultivation and

    these may be sufficient for the production of cereals and fibre crops that would produce

    more than is presently available.

    Greater investment in desalination of seawater: Given the desperate shortage of

    potable water in many countries, desalinating seawater seems to be one answer to these

    needs, although inland countries would need to look at other alternatives. However,

    rainwater catchment and storage projects are mostly ignored. The extraction of water

    from underground resources has met with some complications, whereby water has high

    heavy metal content and has been unsuitable for consumption. With potable water

    assuming a more important role in global economics, its financial value may well compete

    with oil in future markets, creating a great industrial surge in not only sourcing newsupplies, but also to recycle multiple used water. The once used adage of Londons water

    having been recycled through twenty grannies twenty times will be commonplace

    throughout the world.

    (The water poverty map (D) (below) shows the scarcity of water resources in many areas and

    that there are both economic and humanitarian reasons to ensure sustainability of this

    resource.)

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    The following map (E) shows the average rainfall precipitations and highlights the need to

    improve water storage in many of the African and European areas:

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    Map D

    Map E

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    1Welfare parasite this term is used to denote a migrant that is totally dependent on others andhas found no opportunity to find employment or other means of maintaining a day-to-day lifestyleand thus lives off of the state, family or other contacts.2Traditional home area this phrase is used to determine from where the migrant has immediatelymoved from; being a place of family ties.3Immediate family this term is used to determine a partner (wife / husband) and children.4Extended family this term is used to denote parent, brother, sister or in-law.