Global Policy Forum

The Land Grabbing Disaster and the Global Food System (April 11, 2012)

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Haroon Akram-Lodhi



Hedge-funds, governments, and agro-industrial industries have been buying or leasing large blocks of agricultural land around the world in a process widely known as "land grabbing." Land grabbing has displaced tens of millions of small producers, who have lost their livelihoods as a result. Global Policy Forum invited Professor Haroon Akram-Lodhi of Trent University to speak about the issue.

 

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