Land Grabbing in Kenya and Mozambique
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EU Working Group on Land Issues
Over the past years vast tracks of agricultural lands have been taken over by foreign firms. Much of this land is located in African countries with fast increasing populations suffering hunger and under-nourishment. Such land grabbing has been happening largely outside public scrutiny. It has sparked debates in the media, in developmental institutions, in UN organisations and in civil society.
People are now faced with losses of lands to an extent reminiscent of colonial times", says Rolf Künnemann, Human Rights Director at FIAN International.
- Year: 2010
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