Author: PEARCE, FRED
Title: The Landgrabbers - the New Fight over Who Owns the Planet
Description: London, Eden Project. 2012, First. (ISBN: 9781905811731). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped.xi + 388 pages. map endpapers and maps in the text. The race is on to grab the world's most precious and irreplaceable resource: land. The author has gone in pursuit of the globe-trotting landgrabbers - a larger-than-life cast of characters that includes city speculators, Gulf oil sheikhs, Chinese entrepreneurs, big name financiers like George Soros, and industry titans like Richard Branson. His findings are extraordinary. Parcels o land the size of Wales are beong gobbled up across the plains of Africa, the paddy fields of South-east Asia, the jungles of the Amazon and the prairies of Eastern Europe. The land - often fraudently sold by governments as vacant - turns out to be the property of subsistence farmers, cattle herders and forest tribes. All this is being done in the name of feeding the world. But will it? Does taking land from the poorest and hungriest really make sense? Or is the landgrab more about profits than full stomachs? B2E. Fine/Near Fine.

Keywords: Global Landgrab 9781905811731


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