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Land taken over by foreign investors could feed 550m people, study finds

The Guardian Land grabbing in Africa and Asia for export and biofuel crops is keeping populations malnourished and hungry By Damian Carrington A worker at Saudi Star Rice Farm in Gambella, Ethiopia. Rights groups accuse the government of forcing people off their land to make way for foreign investors. Photograph: Jenny Vaughan/AFP/Getty Images The land

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Fairtrade products fail to help the poor, study finds

CTV News By Corinne Ton Coffee and tea drinkers spending an extra few dollars on Fairtrade-certified products are not actually benefitting the lives of the poorest workers in rural Ethiopia and Uganda, according to a new report. Researchers at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London spent four years studying

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