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Hassad has bought over 13 large farms in Australia, 100,000 ha of farmland in Sudan, set up a farm company in Turkey, plans to purchase rice farms in Vietnam, Pakistan and India and wants to buy shares in farm operations in Brazil and Argentina
"Land grabbing is one of the most blatant and scandalous examples of how the dominant corporate food system is pushing a growing number of farmers and consumers into poverty," the campaign group Via Campesina said.
In Cambodia today, hundreds of thousands of people are being alienated from their homes, farmlands, forests and fisheries as the country’s ruling elites and foreign investors plunder the country for private profit in the name of ‘development’ (Bridges Across Borders Cambodia)
Cambodian couple harvesting palm sugar at Lar Peang village, Kampong Chhnang province, on 13.01.2009 (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)
