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Sugar corporations push Cambodian farmers off land
The corporate practice in Cambodia of obtaining tens of thousands of acres from the government as economic development concessions for large sugar plantations, while paying modest compensation to farmers pushed off the land, places a harsh light on international trade pacts that are meant to help the world’s poorest countries. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/01/business/international/in-cambodias-cane-fields.html?ref=world The culprits are the […]