Krispy's Blog

Have you heard about the phenomenon called ‘land-grabbing’? Multinational corporations and nations are buying up land in foreign countries for them to use – a lot of land. Consider this:

• In the past 10 years an area the size of Kenya, Ghana, Uganda, Tanzania and Rwanda put together – or 47 times the area of Denmark – has been sold off globally as land sales rapidly accelerate – that’s a total of 203 million hectares.

• This land would be able “to feed a billion people, equivalent to the number of people who go to bed hungry each night.” But instead “about two-thirds of foreign land investors in developing countries intend to export everything they produce on the land.”

These are just some of the facts according to a recent report by Oxfam with the subtitle ‘Time out on the global land rush’.

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