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Biblioteca Harvesting Hunger in Angola’s Diamond Fields

Harvesting Hunger in Angola’s Diamond Fields

Harvesting Hunger in Angola’s Diamond Fields

Argues that the seizure of farmland for commercial diamond mining in Angola’s Lunda provinces is causing widespread hunger and deepening poverty. Fields are destroyed where crops are cultivated and arbitrary measurements taken to determine how much to pay the peasants; only US$0.25 per square metre of land seized. The law which ought to provide some protection is routinely ignored. Calls on the companies involved to start negotiations with farming communities to ensure fair compensation for people who lose access to their land through the granting of diamond mining concessions.

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Rafael Marques

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