International: Land Grabbing Shows The Urgent Need To Protect Peasants' Rights

International: Land Grabbing Shows The Urgent Need To Protect Peasants' Rights   It's a red alert now.   The government of Saudi Arabia currently owns 1.6 million hectares (ha) of land in Sudan and Indonesia. In Madagascar around 1.3 million ha were leased, bought or transferred to private corporations of South Korea.   The High Level Group of Experts of the Committee on World Food Security (CFS) estimates that between 50 and 80 million ha of land in poor and developing countries...

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