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Buying up cheap land in Africa - what's the impact on local people?
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Companies and foreign governments are currently snapping up huge amounts of cheap land in Africa. The land is being used to produce food, feed or biofuel for the international market. RFI spoke to Henk Hobbelink, the co-founder of GRAIN, an NGO that says the land deals are dispossessing local farmers and destroying agricultural biodiversity.
