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AFP: An area of cultivated land the size of Italy is lost each year to environmental degradation, industrialization and urbanization, a UN expert said Thursday.
Up to 30 million hectares (75 million acres) of land is lost to the new pressures and Olivier De Schutter, UN special rapporteur on the right to food, said 500 million small farmers suffer from hunger partly because "their right to land is under attack."
"As rural populations grow and competition with large industrial units increases, the......
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Farmland the size of Italy lost each year: UN report
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on October 21st, 2010
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