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| | Oxfam press release: Revealed: How rich landowners are making millions from a farm system that fails poor people (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) |
 | | Seven of Britain’s richest men collectively earn over £2m* a year in farm payouts from the European Union, according to new figures released by the international aid agency, Oxfam, today. |
 | | Under Europe’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), the Dukes of Westminster, Marlborough and Bedford, Lords Illife and de Ramsey, the Earl of Leicester, and Sir Adrian Swire rake in up to £370,000 a year each for growing crops like wheat and barley. |
 | | Worst of all, because the CAP encourages overproduction, farmers in some of the world’s poorest countries are battling with cheap excess produce dumped on them by Europe. |
| www.oxfam.org.uk /press/releases/subsidies220104.htm (516 words) |
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