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Article

25 Nov 2009

Author:
Jessica Silver-Greenberg, Business Week [USA]

Land Rush in Africa: Agribusiness and global investors are scooping up farmland. Are corporate farmers the new colonialists?

...[I]n Kenya, foreign land investors are beginning to stir resentment. Subsistence farmers and cattle herders complain that they are being displaced without compensation. In the Siaya District of southwest Kenya...[v]illagers accuse [Dominion Farms] of polluting water and sickening farm animals - allegations the company denies...Residents report other fears as well. Since Dominion's arrival, they say, drinking water from the Yala River has a metallic taste they attribute to the company's use of fertilizer...A soil and water analysis in August...concluded that people shouldn't drink from the Yala River. Among the concerns mentioned in the analysis are the presence of dieldrin, a chemical ingredient in some pesticides that has been linked to breast cancer and Parkinson's disease.