Land Grabbing in
AfricaLand Grabbing in Africa
20+ African countries are selling or leasing land for intensive agriculture
on a shocking scale in what may be the greatest change of ownership since the
colonial era
....
Ethiopia is one of the hungriest countries in the world with more than
13-million people needing food aid, but paradoxically the government is offering
at least 7.5 million acres of its most fertile land to rich countries and some
of the world's most wealthy individuals to export food for their own
populations..." Full text:
Billionaires and Mega-Corporations Behind Immense Land Grab in Africa
It's tragic (Ex 20:17, Re 6:8). I hope the world will care (Lam 4:8).
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