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Documents
[06/04/2013] Untangling the myth of the global land rush
“Rapid growth in large-scale land acquisitions by a great variety of new actors is fuelling a rush for land that can be witnessed all over the world from Russia, Cambodia, Mozambique and...
Multimedia
[15/01/2013] Slideshow: Who's behind the land grabs? / ¿Quiénes están detrás del acaparamiento de tierras? / Qui est derrière l’accaparement des terres ?
A slide show about some of the people pursuing or supporting large farmland grabs around the world. http://www.grain.org/article/entries/4576-slideshow-who-s-behind-the-lan… * * * * * *...
Documents
[11/01/2013] Land concentration and foreign land ownership in Argentina in the context of global land grabbing
“This analysis of the role and dynamic of land concentration and foreign land ownership in Argentina describes the scale of concentration in the agricultural sector, focusing on large domestic...
Documents
[05/10/2012] Oxfam Briefing Paper ‘Our Land, Our Lives’
“In the past decade an area of land eight times the size of the UK has been sold off globally as land sales rapidly accelerate. This land could feed a billion people, equivalent to the number...
Events
[28/09/2012] Brown Bag Seminar on "With the Land Grabbers: Tales from the Front Line in the New Fight over Who Owns the Earth"
“A huge land grab is going on around the world. For food and for profit, the world’s richest and most acquisitive countries, corporations and individuals have spent the past five years...
Documents
[02/04/2012] Online database and report on large-scale land deals launched
On the 26th of April in Washington, during the Land and Poverty Conference organised by World Bank, the Land Matrix partnership - composed by the International Land Coalition, CDE, GIGA, GIZ and...
News
[14/03/2012] New Report - The Land Security Agenda
A new report released by the Earth Security Initiative puts the question of arable land at the center of a new security agenda. The risks to national economies, political stability and social...
News
[28/02/2012] IN PICTURES: Land leasing or land grabbing?
“In the last few years, large-scale acquisitions of farmland in Africa, Latin America and Asia have made headlines across the world. In Africa, countries such as Ethiopia, South Sudan, DR Congo...
News
[09/05/2011] Food inflation, land grabs spur Latin America to restrict foreign ownership
“One of the first things passengers see when disembarking at Cuiaba airport in central Brazil is a real estate advertisement promoting arable land to foreigners. South America has some of...
Documents
[14/04/2011] Resources available online "International Conference on Global Land Grabbing"
All papers, powerpoints, news releases, photos, commentaries of the “International Conference on Global Land Grabbing” are now available online
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