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Resources

For more information about land grabbing please refer to the following list of organizations, presentations, videos, books and more.

You may also like to use our Slow Food Stop Land Grabbing campaign materials available in four languages.

DECLARATIONS

Civil society statement on the finance of land grabs: Land grabbing by pension funds and other financial institutions must be stopped, June 2012, joint statement by Slow Food and 60 organizations.

Declaration of the Forum for Food Sovereignty, Nyéléni 2007

RESEARCH STUDIES

English
IIED, FAO and IFAD, 2009 - Land grab or development opportunity? Agricultural investment and international land deals in Africa

Oakland Institute, 2009 - The Great Land Grab: Rush for World’s Farmland Threatens Food Security for the Poor

Oxfam, 2011 - Land and Power: The growing scandal surrounding the new wave of investments in land Español Français

International Land Coalition, 2011 - Land Rights and the Rush for Land

FoEE, 2012 – Farming Money: how European banks and private finance profit from food speculation and land grabs

The Gaia foundation, 2012 - Opening Pandora's Box - A New Wave of Land Grabbing for the Extractive Industries and The Devastating Impact on Earth

Transnational Institute, for European Coordination Via Campesina and Hands off the Land network, 2013 - Land concentration,land grabbing and people's struggles in Europe

Spanish
Estudio de la FAO halla intensos procesos de concentración y extranjerización de tierras en América Latina y el Caribe

Sergio Gómez E. - Reflexiones sobre la dinámica reciente del mercado de la tierra en América Latina y el Caribe

Miguel Murmis y María Rosa Murmis - El Caso de Argentina

Italian

Oxfam Italia - Chi ci prende la terra ci prende la vita

Liliana Mosca - Università di Napoli - Dal "silenzioso tsunami" sui beni di prima necessità all'accaparramento delle terre nel sud del mondo: il "caso Daewoo Logistic Corporation" nel Madagascar

French

Transnational Institute, Eco Ruralis and Hands off the Land network, 2013 - L'accaparement des terres en Roumanie, menaces pour les territoires ruraux

DOCUMENTS

Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security, FAO, May 2012

Pension funds involved in global largescale farmland aquisitions as of June 2012, GRAIN, June 2012

ORGANIZATIONS

GRAIN grain.org | farmlandgrab.org

Friends of the Earth Int (FOE) foe.org

FIAN fian.org

International Land Coalition landcoalition.org

Oxfam oxfam.org

Oakland Institute oaklandinstitute.org

La Via Campesina viacampesina.org

Coordinadora Latinoamericana de Organizaciones del Campo (CLOC-Vía Campesina) cloc-viacampesina.net

Food First www.foodfirst.org

BOOKS

English
Food Rebellions: Crisis and the Hunger for Justice, by Eric Holt-Giménez and Raj Patel with Annie Shattuck, Fahumu Books and Grassroots International

The Great Food Robbery, by GRAIN

Biofuels, Land Grabbing and Food Security in Africa, edited by Prosper B. Matondi, Kjell Havnevik and Atakilte Beyene

The Land Grabbers, The New Fight over Who Owns the Earth, by Fred Pearce, Beacon Press

Landgrabbing: Journeys in the New Colonialism, by Stefano Liberti, Verso

Français
2033, Atlas des futurs du monde, by Virginie Raisson

Main basse sur la terre. land grabbing et nouveau colonialisme, by Stefano Liberti, Rue de l'échiquier

Italiano
Food Rebellions, by Eric Holt-Giménez and Raj Patel

Food Movements Unite!, collection of essays by Eric Hol-Giménez

2033 – Atlante dei futuri del mondo, by Virginie Raisson

Land grabbing, by Stefano Liberti, Minimum Fax

Il nuovo colonialismo. Caccia alle terre coltivabili, by Franca Roiatti, Università Bocconi

Le guerre del Cibo. Come l’Occidente ha creato una crisi alimentare globale, by Walden Bello, Nuovi Mondi

Deutsch

Landraub, by Stefano Liberti, Rotbuch Verlag

VIDEOS

English
ASO/EJOLT/GRAIN | Grabbing Gambela

A video inspired by an APRODEV report on land grabbing in Cambodia | Stolen Land Stolen Future

Hugo Berkeley and Osvalde Lewat | Land Rush

Français
Alexis Marant | Une planète à vendre

Italiano
RAI 3, Report | Corsa alla terra

PHOTO GALLERIES

English
Alfredo Bini for BBC |Land leasing or land grabbing?

Salena Tramel and La Via Campesina in The Guardian | Farmers meet to tackle 'land grabs'

Italiano
Alfredo Bini for Corriere della Sera | Nuove colonie d'Africa