Time Out on the Global Land Rush
- Author:
- Oxfam International
- Publisher:
- Oxfam International
- Publication Date:
- 4 October 2012
- Tags:
- Africa, Governance, Land and Rural Issues, Sustainable Development
In the past decade an area of land eight times the size of the UK has been sold off globally as land sales rapidly accelerate.
This land could feed a billion people, equivalent to the number of people who go to bed hungry each night. In poor countries, foreign investors have been buying an area of land the size of London every six days.
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