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Investors should work with farmers, not grab their land

2013-09-20 08:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: Land grabbing has become a hot topic in the international development community and beyond. The term usually refers to the acquisition of large areas of land by powerful investors, without respecting the rights and interests of the local users like farmers, herders and foresters. Estimates vary widely because of the difficulty of collecting reliable data, but it can be assumed that at least 30m hectares have been targeted by large-scale land transactions over the past decade. While not all...

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