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The Rich World's Dash for Food Security

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John Berthelsen
May 04, 2009
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Last July, accompanied by a gaggle of smiling Indonesian officials including Agriculture Minister Anton Apriyanto, the Saudi Binladin Group, a construction conglomerate owned by the family of estranged international fugitive Osama bin Laden, announced it planned to spend $4.3 billion on a massive half-million hectare area most recently covered by primar…

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