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Thursday, June 14, 2012

Africa:'' Land Grabs Leave Africa Facing ''Hydrological Suicide''

From All Africa

''A scramble for cheap African farmland by foreign investors threatens to leave millions of people without water and could ultimately drain the continent's rivers, a report warns.

"If these land grabs are allowed to continue, Africa is heading for a hydrological suicide," said the report's co-author Henk Hobbelink, coordinator of GRAIN, an organisation supporting small farmers.''

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