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Drought, nomads and the price of peanuts

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Students read two short text items, which describe different approaches to agriculture. They describe the likely advantages and disadvantages of each approach for farmers, commercial peanut buyers, the government, nomadic herdsman and the European customer.

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land use, trade

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9th - 11th
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Science
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