Cultivated land disappears in AIDS-ravaged Africa
8th Sep 2005, 22:37 GMT
DUBLIN (Reuters) - HIV/AIDS has decimated Africa's farming communities so badly that the amount of cultivated land in some countries has declined by nearly 70 percent, researchers said on Thursday.
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