Time out on the global land rushPublished: 4 October 2012
Author:
Kate Geary, Private Sector Policy Advisor, Oxfam GB
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.
See full Press Release: http://www.oxfam.org/en/grow/policy/our-land-our-lives
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