Land grabbing

It's not necessarily a problem when wealthy companies invest in agricultural land in poor countries for commercial use. But when families are kicked off the land or less food is grown as a result, that's a very big problem indeed. Recent data indicates that at least 33 million hectares of land deals have been identified since 2001 – an area 8 times the size of the Netherlands.

And since the food price spikes of 2008, that's been happening more and more.

Pranašystė...

Control oil and you control nations; control food and you control the people; control money and you control the world.

Henry Kissinger

Land grabbing.

Research managed by the Overseas Development Institute in January 2013 found that the size of the ‘global land grab’ may have been exaggerated, with limited data available, and the data that existing associated with NGOs with an interest in generating media attention around the issue. They found that the figures below provide a variety of estimates, all in the tens of millions of hectares.

• The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) estimated in 2009 that between 15 and 20 million hectares of farmland in developing countries had changed hands since 2006.

• The Land Portal’s Land Matrix data as accessed in January 2013 now totals 49 million hectares of deals globally, although only 26 million hectares of these are transnational.

• A World Bank report reported 57 million hectares worldwide,

• Friis & Reenberg (2012) reported between 51 and 63 million hectares in Africa alone.

The GRAIN database published in January 2012, quantified 35 million hectares, although when stripping out more developed economies such as Australia, New Zealand, Poland, Russia, Ukraine and Romania, the amount in the GRAIN database reduces to 25 million hectares.

The recent growth of “land grabs” is leading to disastrous consequences for poor communities.

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Investuotojai (neinvestuoja, o) superka ubagų žemes.

Imagine that you are in the Middle Ages. It’s the time of castles, knights and the Crusades. Now imagine that you are a brilliant military leader with your own troops. What could prevent you from conquering the world? Only a lack of time.

Žaiskit, vaikučiai!

Landgraberius.

Žemgrobius.

Žaidimas, beje - gal ne Trečiojo pasaulio vaikučiams.

P.S.  Land grabbing ir vyksta.

P.P.S. Irgi išraiškinga.