Land concentration, land grabbing and people’s struggles in Europe

[Paul Mobbs]

Land concentration, land grabbing and people's struggles in Europe,
European Coordination Via Campesina and Hands-Off The Land Alliance,
17th April 2013

Main report -- http://www.eurovia.org/IMG/pdf/Land_in_Europe.pdf
Exec. summary --
http://www.eurovia.org/IMG/pdf/FINAL_17_avril_14h_HOTL-ECVC-Executive-Summary-.pdf


Land grabbing is widely assumed to be happening only in the global
South, but in-depth analysis by a team of researchers shows that land
grabbing is also creeping in Europe.

The report, involving 25 authors from 11 countries, reveals the hidden
scandal of how a few big private business entities have gained control
of ever-greater areas of European land. It exposes how these land elites
have been actively supported by a huge injection of public funds – at a
time when all other public funding is being subjected to massive cuts.
While some of these processes – in particular ever-increasing land
concentration -- are not new, they have accelerated in recent decades in
particular in Eastern Europe. They have also paved the way for a new
sector of foreign and domestic actors to emerge on the European stage,
many tied into increasingly global commodity chains, and all looking to
profit from the increasingly speculative commodity of land.



-- 

"We are not for names, nor men, nor titles of Government,
nor are we for this party nor against the other but we are
for justice and mercy and truth and peace and true freedom,
that these may be exalted in our nation, and that goodness,
righteousness, meekness, temperance, peace and unity with
God, and with one another, that these things may abound."
(Edward Burrough, 1659 - from 'Quaker Faith and Practice')

Paul Mobbs, Mobbs' Environmental Investigations
3 Grosvenor Road, Banbury OX16 5HN, England
tel./fax (+44/0)1295 261864
email - mobbsey at gn.apc.org
website - http://www.fraw.org.uk/mei/index.shtml
public key - http://www.fraw.org.uk/mei/mobbsey_public_key-2013.asc

-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/x-ygp-stripped
Size: 155 bytes
Desc: This is a digitally signed message part
URL: <https://mailman.gn.apc.org/mailman/private/diggers350/attachments/20130419/c3cdd066/attachment.bin>