Ethiopia at centre of global farmland rush

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Monday, March 21, 2011 6:42:15 AM GMT Monday, March 21, 2011 6:18:23 AM GMT

Karmjeet Sekhon, project manager for Indian food company Karuturi Global, with crops in Ethiopia's Gambella province. Photograph: John Vidal for the Guardian It's the deal of the century: £150 a week to lease more than 2,500 sq km (1,000 sq miles) of virgin, fertile land – an area the size of Dorset – for 50 years. Bangalore-based food company Karuturi Global says it had not even seen the land when it was offered by the E...

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