The Right to Food: Corporate, Foreign Gov't Land Grab Causing Hunger in Poor Countries

(Multimedia) The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, Olivier de Schutter, joins us to discuss his recent warning that some 500 million small farmers in poor countries are suffering from hunger, partly because foreign countries and corporations have bought up large tracts of land. We're also joined by Smita Narula, author of a new study suggesting that many of the land deals in Africa and South Asia lack transparency and could threaten local ... Full Story »

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Warrior Wheatman
3.8
by Warrior Wheatman - Oct. 29, 2010

Mid-East and European money is finding safe-haven in Third-World farmland. UN report to be released chides host governments for lack of oversight of evictions of many thousands of villagers.

Thanks to ownership of automated factories, millions of jobs are exterminated. Now, hand-pushed carts must compete with factory-farm trucks, delivering food and bio-fuel to international markets.

the Pakistani government last year announced that it would make over 2.4 million hectares of land available to foreign corporate investment in agriculture. One farmers’ movement has noted that at least 25,000 villages threaten to be displaced by investments from Gulf state investors alone.

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