Squeezing Africa Dry: Behind Every Land Grab is a Water Grab

Author:
Grain
Publisher:
Grain
Publication Date:
13 June 2012
Tags:
Africa, Food and Agriculture, Water and Sanitation, Sustainable Development

Behind the current scramble for land in Africa is a global struggle for a commodity increasingly seen as more precious than gold or oil - water.

 

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