East Africa: Arable Land Deals With the West Bad for Food Security

The thriving market for land for commercial agriculture in East and West Africa is now seen as a threat to food security as rural populations are pushed off prime land.

Critics of the fast growing trade in land by governments on the continent fear that some of the companies involved in the deals that drove the global recession by inflating real estate prices through risky financial manoeuvres are doing the same with the world's food supply.

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