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Fred Pearce: Land grabbing has more of an impact on the world's poor than climate change - 0 views

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    Over the last few years, I became aware of this hidden revolution taking place around the world: the buying up of vast swaths of land by foreign entities from beneath its occupiers. Soaring grain prices in 2007/2008 led to countries such as Saudi Arabia and South Korea worrying about their national food security and buying up overseas land.
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Land deals in Africa have led to a wild west - bring on the sheriff, says FAO - 1 views

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    Food and Agriculture Organisation chief José Graziano da Silva demands high noon on land grabs that jeopardise food security
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Land grabbers: Africa's hidden revolution - 0 views

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    Omot Ochan was sitting in a remnant of forest on an old waterbuck skin and eating maize from a calabash gourd. He was lean and tall, wearing only a pair of combat pants. Behind him was a straw hut, where bare-breasted women and barefoot children cooked fish on an open fire.
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Oxfam warns of spiralling land grab in developing countries - 2 views

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    The scale of the rush by speculators, pension funds and global agri-businesses to acquire large areas of developing countries is far greater than previously thought, and is already leading to conflict, hunger and human rights abuses, says Oxfam.
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