Guardian: What inspired you to write The Land Grabbers? Over the last few years, I became aware of this hidden revolution taking place around the world: the buying up of vast swaths of land by foreign entities from beneath its occupiers. Soaring grain prices in 2007/2008 led to countries such as Saudi Arabia and South Korea worrying about their national food security and buying up overseas land. Then speculators and investors started piling in on the back of that. The net result is that poor farmers and...
URL: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/may/20/fred-pearce-land-grab-interview
Enclosure: http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Observer/Pix/pictures/2012/5/15/1337098602602/ethiopia-villagers-006.jpg
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