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Biofuel project funded by UK leaves Africans without food
2013-09-01 20:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: Thousands of people in one of Africas poorest countries are going hungry because of a biofuels land grab by a firm that receives funding from the Department for International Development, a charity claims. ActionAid accuses the Swiss company Addax Bioenergy of threatening livelihoods in rural communities in Sierra Leone, where it runs an extensive sugar-cane plantation. Addax, which will soon begin the first commercial shipping of biofuels from Africa to Europe, receives funding from a UK-based...
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