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.










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