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Stop selling off African land - invest in farmers instead

2014-01-23 12:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: The international year of family farming is now underway, and never before have family farmers in Africa been more under threat. Large land deals between African governments and usually foreign (and sometimes domestic) investors have seen swathes of the countryside leased or concessioned, often for as much as 50 to 99 years. From Senegal in West Africa to Ethiopia in the Horn, and down to Mozambique in the South, land considered idle and available has changed hands, with profound implications...

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