Land Grab puts Small Farmers at Risk

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Rich governments and corporations are triggering alarms for the poor as they buy up the rights to millions of hectares of agricultural land in developing countries in an effort to secure their own long-term food supplies.

In a recent article for The Guardian, Julian Borger explains how poor states are producing food for the rich at the expense of their own hungry people. Read the full article here.

Our friends at GRAIN have released a Google Notebook with full-text news clippings about the land grab, those who want to read more.

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