A Quote by Mo Ibrahim
In a world of growing food demand, Africa is home to two-thirds of the world's unexploited arable land.
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If he does not plant the field that was given over to him as a garden, if it be arable land, the gardener shall pay the owner the produce of the field for the years that he let it lie fallow, according to the product of neighboring fields, put the field in arable condition and return it to its owner.
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