Ethiopia at centre of global farmland rush-video

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Sunday, March 27, 2011 5:27:07 PM GMT Sunday, March 27, 2011 5:19:53 PM GMT

John Vidal on Ethiopia's land rush Link to this video 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 Ethiopian government with tax breaks thrown in. Karuturi snapped it up,...

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