Corporate control over farms

Losing out: A Nigerian farmer digging a water channel in his farm at Buruku, Kaduna State. Individual-owned farms are succumbing to a corporate buy-up. - AFP

Small farmers are being squeezed out as mega-farms and plantations gobble up their land.

THE world’s food supplies are at risk because farmland is becoming rapidly concentrated in the hands of wealthy elites and corporations, a study has found.