Featured News
The global land grab is still taking place, landmark conference finds
Major land sales organised by states and businesses continue to cause problems for rural communities and indigenous groups, a landmark conference in Colombia has found.
Over the past 20 years, more than 30 million hectares of agricultural land has been sold off around the world according to the Land Matrix. But whilst the issue was frequently reported on 15 years ago, the issue has largely dropped off the news agenda. Headline-grabbing large land grabs have been replaced by smaller deals, focused around growth for agribusinesses, energy, conservation and carbon investments.
