Land grabs leave Africa thirsty
Oakland and Polaris Institutes | 15 February 2012 | land grabbing | Ethiopia, Mali, Tanzania, United Republic of
An excellent new report from Polaris and the Oakland institute on the impact of landgrabbing on water use in Africa. 'If all the 40 million hectares of land that were acquired on the continent in 2009 come under cultivation, a staggering volume of water would be required for irrigation (…) approximately twice the volume of water that was used for agriculture in all of Africa in 2005'.