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From: Tsegai Emmanuel (emmanuelt40@gmail.com)
Date: Thu Oct 28 2010 - 11:58:29 EDT
Report: Global Food Security and Sovereignty Threatened by Corporate and
Government "Land Grabs" in Poor Countries
Since the food crisis of 2008, food justice activists have warned that
governments in concert with multinational corporations have accelerated a
worldwide "land grab" to buy up vast swaths of arable land in poor
countries. According to *The Economist* magazine, between 37 to 49 million
acres of farmland were put up for sale in deals involving foreign nationals
between 2006 and mid-2009. [includes rush transcript]
http://www.democracynow.org/2010/8/24/report_global_food_security_and_sovereignty
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