The Landgrabbers

The New Fight Over Who Owns The Earth

Fred Pearce

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Ebury Press
03 June 2013

Society & Social Sciences; Geopolitics

What do City speculators, Gulf oil sheikhs, Chinese entrepreneurs, big-name financiers like George Soros and industry titans like Richard Branson buy when they go shopping? Land.

Parcels the size of Wales are being snapped up across the plains of Africa, the paddy fields of Southeast Asia, the jungles of the Amazon and the prairies of Eastern Europe. Why? The money men will tell you that their investments will bring an end to world famine. But is this more about fat profits and food security for the few?

Fred Pearce 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. In this brilliant piece of investigative journalism Pearce moves from boardroom and trading floor to goat-herder's hut and flooded forest. The result is an eye-opening, extraordinarily important examination of the most profound ethical and economic issue in the world today.

By: Fred Pearce
Imprint: Ebury Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 127mm, Spine: 28mm
Weight: 304g
ISBN: 9781905811755
ISBN 10: 1905811756
Pages: 448
Publication Date: 03 June 2013
Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Fred Pearce is the environmental and development consultant for New Scientist and writes regularly for the Guardian. He has won many awards including UK Environmental Journalist of the Year. In 2011 he received the ABSW Science Writers' Lifetime Achievement Award. His previous books include When the Rivers Run Dry - voted among the all-time 'Top 50' books by Cambridge University's Programme for Sustainable Leadership - The Last Generation, Confessions of an Eco-Sinner - longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize - and Peoplequake.

Reviews for The Landgrabbers: The New Fight Over Who Owns The Earth

Brilliant: Fred Pearce has lifted the lid on an issue that has yet to register with most people. Anyone who cares about the fate of the planet should read this. -- Chris Mullen Fred Pearce is at the nexus, brilliantly reporting on the biggest swindle of the 21st centurey. He is without peer. * Susan George, author of HOW THE OTHER HALF DIES * compelling and well-researched * Nature * A very important piece of work. * Tony Benn * This is just what the world has been waiting for-a detailed overview of the land grabs that are the principal manifestation of a new geopolitics of food. * Lester R. Brown, President of Earth Policy Institute and author of World on the Edge *