The Landgrabbers - Tapa blanda

"Brilliant: Fred Pearce has lifted the lid on an issue that has yet to register with most people. Anyone who cares about the fate of the planet should read this." Chris Mullin "This is just what the world has been waiting for-a detailed overview of the land grabs that are the principal manifestation of a new geopolitics of food." Lester R. Brown, President of Earth Policy Institute and author of World on the Edge "In this terrific book, Fred Pearce digs the dirt on land grabs. There's no corner of the world that he hasn't visited to see modern colonialism in action, and he's produced a work of required reading for anyone concerned about global justice in the twenty-first century." Raj Patel, author of The Value of Nothing "compelling and well-researched" Nature "an astounding eye-opener, Landgrabbers is an unflinchingly sobering read and all the more important for that" Compass, Cox & Kings' Travel Magazine

Right now, an unprecedented land grab is taking place around the world. Every day, parcels of land - the size of Wales and larger - are being gobbled up across the plains of Africa, paddy fields of South-east Asia, jungles of the Amazon and prairies of Eastern Europe. The raiders are the ultra-rich Gulf oil sheikhdoms, Russian oligarchs, Chinese entrepreneurs, jumpy governments worried about food security in an ever more populated world, and financial speculators looking for the next big investment opportunity. The victims are subsistence farmers around the world, whose title to the land they work is uncertain and whose power to prevent their governments selling it from beneath them very small. Following the trail from the boardrooms and ministries to the victims themselves, "The Landgrabbers" lifts the lid on the most profound ethical, environmental, economic and social issue in the world today.