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Land Grabbing Is Accelerating as Pressure on Agricultural Resources Grows
2015-10-09 17:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: An area about the size of Japan -- roughly 140,000 square miles -- has been purchased or leased by foreign entities for agricultural use during the last 15 years, according to a report by the Worldwatch Institute. An additional 58,000 square miles are under negotiation, the report found. Land grabbing, a term for the purchase or lease of agricultural land by foreign interests, has emerged as a threat to food security in several nations. Globally, over half of this land is in Africa, especially...
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