UNEP Global Environmental Alert Service | July 2011

The rush for land and its potential environmental consequence

Rising food prices, the need for irrigation, and a hunger for biofuels have
led to a recent rise in land acquisitions in the Global South, with the
potential for large-scale forest and pasture conversion, biodiversity losses
and increased competition for water.

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