By Emma Kirwan I read a most disturbing article in the New York Times this morning. African governments are leading a new, controversial trend for solving domestic food insecurity and economic impoverishment: leasing land to foreign countries for “development.” As presented by the New York Times, let’s use Mali to illustrate what’s happening. Along the [...]
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African farmers displaced by foreign agro-industrial investors.
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