Data set of global land grabs released

[Darren]

Today GRAIN is making available a new data set documenting 416 recent, 
large-scale land grabs by foreign investors for the production of food 
crops. The cases cover nearly 35 million hectares of land in 66 countries.

This is not an exhaustive list of all land deals. It focuses only on 
those deals that:

  * were initiated after 2006,
  * have not been cancelled,
  * are led by foreign investors,
  * are for the production of food crops, and
  * involve large areas of land.

Deals for sugar cane and palm oil production were included but not those 
for crops like jatropha or cotton.

The collection of deals provides a stark snapshot of how agribusiness 
has been rapidly expanding across the globe since the food and financial 
crises of 2008 and how this is taking food production out of the hands 
of farmers and local communities.

It confirms that Africa is the primary target of the land grabs, but it 
also underlines the importance of Latin America, Asia and Eastern 
Europe, demonstrating that this is a global phenomenon.

more at -

http://www.grain.org/article/entries/4479-grain-releases-data-set-with-over-400-global-land-grabs 

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