Land grabbing
Subtitle: journeys in the new colonialism
By: by Stefano Liberti ; translated by Enda Flannelly
Publisher: Verso
Published: 2013
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 226
ISBN-13: 9781781681176
Subjects: Land tenure; History; Rural Land use; Food supply; Agriculture; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Globalization; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism
Work titles: Land grabbing
Description: "To the governments and corporations that are currently buying up vast tracts of the Third World, it is called "land leasing." To its critics this new era of colonization is nothing more than "land grabbing." In this arresting account of how millions of hectares of fertile soil are being stolen to feed the wealthy thousands of miles away, journalist Stefano Liberti takes us from a Dutch-owned model farm in Ethiopia to an international conference in Riyadh, where representatives of Third World governments compete to attract the interest of Saudi investors; from institutional and commercial meetings in Rome to the headquarters of the Landless Workers' Movement in Sao Paulo"--
Notes: "First published as Land grabbing. Come il mercato delle terre crea il nuovo colonialismo, (c) Minimum Fax, 2011."

Includes index.