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Telegraph: The trend for buying up huge areas of land in poorer countries to grow cash crops like sugar harks back to the Colonial era.
But the problem has not gone away and may even be getting worse due to the increasing demand for food, the pressures of climate change, water scarcity and competition for land from non-food crops such as biofuels to power vehicles.
In a new report to highlight the scale of land grabs today, Oxfam estimate that 227 million hectares (560 million acres) have been sold, leased......
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‘Land grabs’ leave people hungry and homeless – Oxfam
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on September 21st, 2011
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