Bolivian vice president proposes unprecedented agricultural expansion (PART 1)

Mongabay
By Morgan Erickson-DavisSep 10, 2014, 3:45 pm98 pts
On August 14, the Bolivian Vice President, Alvaro Garcia Linera, made a startling announcement: by 2025, Bolivia was going to make two striking developments - first, it would expand all cultivated land to 2.5 times its present area, and second, it would triple food production from 15 to 45 million tons.

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