SOSC 1430 Study Guide - Final Guide: Land Grabbing, Indigenous Peoples In Brazil, Doha Declaration
9 Apr 2016
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Land grabs: land deals that happen without the free, prior, and informed consent of communities that often result in farmers being forced from their homes and families left hungry. Global crises in food, energy, finance, and the environment has driven a dramatic revaluation of land ownership. Tnc and national economic actors (government) and private equity funds search for empty land often in distant countries that can serve as sites for fuel and food production in the event of future price spikes. The phrase global land grab" has become a catch-all to describe and analyze the current explosion of large scale (trans)national commercial land transactions. Around the world, there have been strong reactions from states, corporations, and civil society groups. Some see land grabs as a major threat to the lives and livelihoods of the rural poor, and so oppose such commercial land deals.
