Land grabbing
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land-grabbing-189-1218264
title:
Land grabbing
text:
Land grabbing is the large-scale acquisition of land through buying or leasing of large pieces of land by domestic and transnational companies, governments, and individuals. While used broadly throughout history, land grabbing as used in the 21st century primarily refers to large-scale land acquisitions following the 2007–08 world food price crisis. Obtaining water resources is usually critical to the land acquisitions, so it has also led to an associated trend of water grabbing. By prompting fo
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Large-scale acquisition of land (over 1,000 ha) whether by purchase, leases or other means.
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_grabbing
date created:
2011-01-15T10:10:15Z
date modified:
2024-09-09T15:56:28Z
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