Why Poverty?
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- Episode
- The Great Land Rush
- Broadcast Info
- 2012 (58 mins)
- Description
- 75% of Mali’s population are farmers, but rich land-hungry nations like China and Saudi Arabia are leasing Mali’s land in order to turn large areas into agribusiness farms. Many Malian peasants do not welcome these efforts, seeing them as yet another manifestation of imperialism. Tackling questions such as food sovereignty, land ownership and how development is sold to Africa, Hugo Berkeley & Osvalde Lewat’s film asks who owns Africa?
- Genre
- International Development; Social Work; Health and Social Care
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The Open University, "Why Poverty?". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/ou/search/index.php/prog/83356 (Accessed 09 Jan 2025)