Jul 5, 2013

Leasing agricultural land to foreigners in Africa

A woman walks through an area only metres from her village of Nimba Point in Liberia that was forest and farmland only a few months ago. Residents are now faced with adjusting from an agriculture-based economy to a wage economy, although contracts concerning compensation are still being disputed. (Peter Power/The Globe and Mail)

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/africa/2012/01/201211142114188969.html
http://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/news/Arable-land-deals-with-the-West-bad-for-food-security/-/2558/1214786/-/view/printVersion/-/alfd7az/-/index.html
http://farmlandgrab.org/post/view/19871
http://www.africareview.com/Special-Reports/Are-land-leases-a-good-thing/-/979182/1256784/-/t1y9m0/-/index.html
http://blogs.reuters.com/africanews/2009/01/13/selling-africa-by-the-pound/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/2012/apr/27/international-land-deals-database
http://www.twentyfoursevennews.com/headline/over-70m-hectares-agricultural-land-grabbed-by-foreigners/
http://www.intergate-immigration.com/blog/south-africa-the-great-foreign-land-debate/
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/06/opinion/the-global-farmland-rush.html
http://www.thepost.co.za/foreigners-should-not-own-farms-in-sa-nkwinti-1.1475455#.UdeYvTVzaP8
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/land-rush-leaves-liberias-farmers-in-the-dust/article4570938/

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