May 4, 2012 — As part of Thomson-Reuters’ special report on AlertNet called Solutions for a Hungry World, Astrid Zweynert interviewed Tim Hanstad on the role land rights play in addressing food security, how Rwanda and China are dealing with the issue, and how the larger aid community is effected by the level of land rights in the communities where they work.
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