Libyan Leader Denounces New African Land Grab

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[Muammar Gaddafi]'s call was disputed by U.N. officials. "It is wrong to call them land grabs," said Kanayo Nwanze, who heads the U.N. International Fund for Agricultural Development. "These are investments in farmland like investments in oil exploration We can have win-win situations." But French Farm Minister Bruno Le Maire was quoted by the Reuters news agency as agreeing with the Libyan colonel, that "predatory" farmland acquisitions in poor countries should be halted.

In the past two years, various non-African countries with China, India, South Korea, Britain and the Arab Gulf states leading the pack - have picked up huge tracts of farmland in Africa by lease or purchase, to produce food or biofuels for their own use.

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Libyan Leader Denounces New African Land Grab

Nov. 17 (GIN)- Libya's Col. Muammar Gaddafi has called for an end to the buying and selli...

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