Farmland in developing countries has become an unlikely object of investor fascination . Goldman Sachs , and Morgan Stanley are each raising hundreds of millions of dollars for agriculture funds aimed at Africa and Latin America . Agribusinesses in the U.S. are leasing vast tracts of African land from which they expect to export crops and glean healthy returns . Arab oil countries , meanwhile ,are vying for fertile acreage for fear their homelands are running out of water . The executives leading this hunt for farmland say they are boosting poor economies . But in Kenya , foreign land investors are beginning to stir resentment . Subsistence farmers and cattle herders complain that they are being displaced without compensation . Corporate farmers are now the new colonialist .
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1. Fascination - 魅力
2. Raising - 募集
3. leasing - 承租
4. tract - 寬廣的地面
5. Crops -農作物
6. Glean - 拾穗
7. Vying - 競爭
8. fertile - abundant 肥沃的
9. acreage - section of land measured in acres; fields, estate, land 英畝數
10. boosting - 提升
11. Stir -make circular movements in a liquid with an object 攪拌
12. resentment - 怨恨
13. Cattle - 牲口
14. Herders - 牧人
15. Displaced - 撤離
