Land Rush
How do you feed the world?
2012 · 58m · N/A
Documentary
Directed by
Osvalde Lewwat
,
Hugo Berkeley
Overview
A partnership between the Government of Mali and an American agricultural investor may see 200-square kilometers of Malian land transformed into a large-scale sugar cane plantation. Land Rush documents the hopes, fears, wishes, and demands of small-scale subsistence farmers in the region who look to benefit, or lose out, from the deal.
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