Could a global grab for fertile soil, bring civil unrest?

Australian Broadcasting Corporation: The estimated 1.6 billion hectares of fertile soils currently under cultivation can certainly feed the current world population. If we still have approximately 800 million undernourished and hungry people on this planet, it is due to serious imbalances in the distribution of wealth, land and natural resources in general. Market driven preference to allocate part of the fertile soils to producing energy or biofuels instead of food, as well as unsustainable consumption habits and market distortion......

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