Is the Plantation – A Colonial Platform of Exploitation Still Alive?

Touch the Soil News #1718  (Feature Photo – Tea Plantations in Kenya – CCA SA 4.0 International, Wktoo) 

Farmlandgrab.org brings us a disturbing story of how land and labor have been exploited since the 1980s as Europeans brought mono-culture farming to Africa. The story is not a pretty one, but for the sake of understanding the human condition, it is worthy of note. You can read the full story here:

https://www.farmlandgrab.org/post/view/29953-the-enduring-legacy-of-a-little-known-world-bank-project-to-secure-african-plantations-for-european-billionaires