July 30th, 2010, 10:23 AM
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Baroness Samedi
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African land grabs
Nice. As if Africa didn't have enough problems. Now wealthy outsiders are buying up land and growing crops for the international commodity markets.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2...worldbank-food More of the "get into commodity growing & trading, and the $ you get will enable you to buy other countries' imported food" nonsense. Somehow I don't think that this is going to balance well. It rarely does. Last edited by nedwina; July 30th, 2010 at 10:26 AM.. Reason: not sure about that plural! |
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July 30th, 2010, 06:47 PM
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Re: African land grabs
Soveriegn wealth funds will do a better job than Zimbabwe, Sierra Leone, Liberia and others have done.
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July 30th, 2010, 06:54 PM
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Re: African land grabs
I read the article and must have missed the part about land grabs. If the land is for sale, how is that a land grab?
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July 30th, 2010, 09:30 PM
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Re: African land grabs
That's a scary concept, but it's happening on an incredible scale, mostly to feed the asian and saudi populations. The UN estimated 74 million acres were bought this way in the first half of 2009.
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July 30th, 2010, 09:32 PM
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Re: African land grabs
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