Jobs vs Land

What would you pick - a job in a sneaker factory, or your ancestral land?

African Farmers Losing Land to Investors - NYTimes.com

But many investments appear to be pure speculation that leaves land fallow, the report found. Farmers have been displaced without compensation, land has been leased well below value, those evicted end up encroaching on parkland and the new ventures have created far fewer jobs than promised, it said.