http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/news-by-industry/et-cetera/foreign-farms-in-africa-bring-investment-and-controversy/articleshow/14227948.cms
"Foreign farms are spreading across Africa to grow food and biofuels for global markets, bringing much-needed investments but also new troubles for a continent struggling to feed itself. "
"Many of the deals are with private companies, from Asian states seeking to feed large, growing populations to Europeans looking to produce biofuels, and their arrival on the continent has sometimes provoked angry backlashes."
"Last year two people died in protests in Senegal over a 20,000-hectare (50,000-acre) biofuel scheme. The government in Dakar put the scheme on ice. "
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