Africa: Cultivated Land Disappears in Aids-Ravaged Africa

HIV/AIDS has decimated Africa's farming communities so badly that the amount of cultivated land in some countries has declined by nearly 70 per cent, researchers said Thursday, Reuters reported from Dublin.

About 80 per cent of Africans derive their living from agriculture but the illness, which has infected more than 25 million people in sub-Saharan Africa, has left fewer and fewer people able to till the soil.

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