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Clifton Leaf

The Landgrabbers: The New Fight Over Who Owns The Earth Age_OB005 the world's deadliest germs lieRight now, an unprecedented land grab is taking place around the world. Every day, parcels of land the size of Wales and larger are being gobbled up across the plains of Africa, paddy fields of South east Asia, jungles of the Amazon and prairies of Eastern Europe. The raiders are the ultra rich Gulf oil sheikhdoms, Russian oligarchs, Chinese entrepreneurs, jumpy governments worried about food security in an ever more populated world, and financial