Foreign Investors Snap Up African Farmland. More investment in agriculture and irrigation

Governments and investment funds are buying up farmland in Africa and Asia to grow food -- a profitable business, with a growing global population and rapidly rising prices. The high-stakes game of real-life Monopoly is leading to a modern colonialism to which many poor countries submit out of necessity.

Der Spiegel July 2009
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