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Culture I: Sierra Leone by Ingrid, Luisina and Cynthia

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Sierra Leone is an extremely vulnerable country. Most of the population live below the poverty line, its economy is strongly dependent on donors and agriculture is its largest economic sector. A contentious issue at the moment is that farmland is being leased to foreign companies. It is a practice that pertains to almost a fifth of all farmland, and its scope is increasing. Land that has been in the hands of the local people for decades, and who have always grown their own food on it, is being taken away from them. Two thirds of the population depend on subsistance farming.

Culture II: Ireland by Abigail, Sonia, Nadia and Andrea

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Ireland   / ˈ aɪ ər l ə n d /  Ulster-Scots:  Airlann [ˈɑːrlən] ) is an island in the North Atlantic. It is separated from Great Britain to its east by the North Channel, the Irish Sea, and St George's Channel. Ireland is the second-largest island of the British Isles, the third-largest in Europe, and the twentieth-largest on Earth. Politically, Ireland is divided between the Republic of Ireland (officially named Ireland), which covers five-sixths of the island, and Northern Ireland, which is part of the United Kingdom, in the northeast of the island. In 2011, the population of Ireland was about 6.4 million, ranking it the second-most populous island in Europe after Great Britain. Just under 4.6 million live in the Republic of Ireland and just over 1.8 million live in Northern Ireland.