Africa: Land Squeeze: The Hidden Battle for Africa’s Soils

Jun 3, 2024 | Susan Chomba and Million Belay, African Arguments
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In recent years, Africa has been at the epicentre of an alarming global trend: the land squeeze. The 2007-8 global financial crisis unleashed a huge wave of land grabbing across Africa and the world. Though the crisis eased, the pressures on farmland never went away. Now 15 years on, global land prices have doubled, land grabbing is back with a vengeance, and farmers are being squeezed from all sides.