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75% of Mali's population are farmers, but rich land-hungry nations like China and Saudi Arabia are leasing Mali's land in order to turn large areas into agribusiness farms. Many Malian peasants do ...not welcome these efforts, seeing them as yet another manifestation of imperialism. Tackling questions such as food sovereignty, land ownership and how development is sold to Africa, Hugo Berkeley & Osvalde Lewat's film asks who owns Africa?
75% of Mali's population are farmers, but rich land-hungry nations like China and Saudi Arabia are leasing Mali's land in order to turn large areas into agribusiness farms. Many Malian peasants do ...not welcome these efforts, seeing them as yet another manifestation of imperialism. Tackling questions such as food sovereignty, land ownership and how development is sold to Africa, Hugo Berkeley & Osvalde Lewat's film asks who owns Africa?
| Series: | Why poverty? |
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| Episode | 7 |
| First transmission date: | 04-12-2012 |
| Original broadcast channel: | BBC4 |
| Published: | 2012 |
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| Duration: | 00:58:13 |
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| Directors: | Hugo BerkeleyOsvalde Lewat |
| Producer: | Eli Cane |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Link to related site: | BBC website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01pblv4 OU website: http://www.open.edu/openlearn/society/international-development/ou-on-the-bbc-why-poverty |
| Production number: | FKIN961B |
| Videofinder number: | 83356 |
| Available to public: | no |
