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Sun Mar 07, 2010 at 06:52:33 AM PST
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| Many companies are now buying up land in African countries such as Ethiopia to engage in large-scale agriculture, the bulk of whose output is then shipped out of these countries to the Middle East and Europe. The purchased land is often communal in nature, used for grazing or to help preserve the agricultural productivity of surrounding lands. But the local governments consider it to be unowned, and if it is still arable it can be sold off. Not surprisingly, this also impacts water availability to the local communities.
The issues are discussed in this article from the Guardian:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/envi... |
| Andy Anderson :: African Agricultural Land Grab |
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