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UN attempts to slow the new scramble for Africa

                   
independent.co.uk
07-Nov-2009
 
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More than 50 heads of state will gather for a summit later this month to look at ways of policing the extraordinary "land grab" that has seen richer countries buy up at least 20 million hectares of farmland in Africa in the... [read full story]                    

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The great global land grab

 redpepper.org.uk 07-Nov-2009
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The great global land grab

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07-Nov-2009
 

The global food crisis has prompted various rich countries to start buying up land in the poorer world to secure their food supplies. As well as affecting domestic food supplies in the countries affected, Sue Branford says it...

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