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Farmland grabbing in Latvia

October 22, 2015

In Latvia, western landgrabbers buy up farmland in the hope it'll one day become valuable for construction projects. That's left acres of land bare and unused across the Latvian countryside.

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Lettland Landwirtschaft
Image: picture-alliance/Lehtikuva/J. Avikainen