Extent of Farmland Grabbing in the EU
Study
13-05-2015
This study looks at the rise of large-scale land deals, ‘land grabbing’, in the EU. It finds significant evidence that farmland grabbing is underway in the EU today. It discusses a number of the drivers of farmland grabbing in the EU and examines the impacts of farmland grabbing for European food security and food sovereignty, rural employment and vitality, and environmental sustainability. It argues that farmland grabbing, especially when connected to other burning European land issues, calls for a reform of European land governance.
Study
External author
Sylvia Kay, Jonathan Peuch and Jennifer Franco (Transnational Institute)
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- agricultural policy
- agricultural real estate
- agricultural structures and production
- AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY AND FISHERIES
- common agricultural policy
- economic analysis
- economic consequence
- ECONOMICS
- European construction
- EUROPEAN UNION
- family farming
- farming systems
- international affairs
- INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
- land policies
- large holding
- policy on agricultural structures
- regions and regional policy
- rural development
- self-sufficiency in food
- single market
- sustainable agriculture