Powerful countries are buying up much of the world's land

China, home to 20 percent of the world's population but only 8 percent of the world's arable land, has gone abroad in search of farmland. In Africa alone, Chinese "friendship farms" grow cabbages in the Democratic Republic of Congo, raise fish in Angola, or harvest sesame seeds, cashews and peanuts in Mozambique.Read full article >>...(read more)

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