The data show that the concentration of farmland in fewer and fewer hands is directly related to the increasing number of people going hungry every day. In the last 50 years, a staggering 140 million hectares - the size of almost all the farmland in India - has been taken over by four industrial crops: soya bean, oil palm, rapeseed and sugar cane. And this trend is accelerating. In the next few decades, experts predict that the global area planted to oil palm will double, while the soybean area will grow by a third. These crops dont feed people. They are grown to feed the agro-industrial complex. Olgui Meyer Institute for Socio-Ecological Research
Posted on: Sun, 23 Nov 2014 13:37:22 +0000