Omo Change

Omo Change tells and to document, the big investments from European and Chinese countries in the Omo Valley, one of the most important place for its peculiar biodiversity despite the desert or semi-desert ambient. In fact, this area has been declared as UNESCO Human Heritage site in the 1980. A big dam construction, foreign investments for brand new cotton farms, are changing dramatically both the naturalistic ambient and the local population daily life. Moreover, there is a big government project to build a sugar factories carrying off more than 200,000 hectares to the tribes with a consequent reshaping of the territorial borders and social. The Omo Valley is seeing its biggest contradiction, the one that has been generated by the investments of the so called development. The Omo Valley risks of becoming a pool of resources for the rest of the world but not for its own population.