Huge land deals threaten poor country farmers: UN expert

08 Mar 10

Subsistence farmers in developing nations are at risk because farmland equivalent to the total amount available in France has been negotiated away to foreign investors since 2006, a UN expert said Monday. "I am extremely doubtful and worried to see these transactions involving very large areas of land, which will threaten these people's ability to continue" subsistence farming, said Olivier De Schutter, UN special rapporteur on the right to food.
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