The race by food-importing countries to secure farmland overseas to improve their food security risks creating a "neo-colonial' system, the United Nations' top agriculture official has cautioned.
The warning by Jacques Diouf, director-general of the Food and Agriculture Organisation, comes as countries from Saudi Arabia to China plan to lease vast tracts of land in Africa and Asia to grow crops and ship them back to their markets.
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Links:
[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/news/un-warns-food-neo-colonialism
[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/javier-blas
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/newspaper/financial-times-london
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/agriculture
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/agricultural-labourers
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/un
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/fao
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/africa
[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/asia
[10] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/china
[11] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/saudi-arabia
[12] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/food-security
