Vast Biofuel Demand Drives 'Land Grabs'

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R epresentatives of Catholic organizations at the World Social Forum in Dakar, Senegal, said that massive foreign investment in large tracts of land across Africa—“land grabbing,” according to detractors—is pushing small farmers off their land and threatening another worldwide food crisis.

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