Land Grabbing

To the governments and corporations that are currently buying up vast tracts of the Third World, it is called "e;land leasing."e; To its critics this new era of colonization is nothing more than "e;land grabbing."e; In this arresting account of how millions of hectares of fertile soil are being stolen to feed the wealthy thousands of miles away, journalist Stefano Liberti takes us from a Dutch-owned model farm in Ethiopia to an international conference in Riyadh, where representatives of Third World governments compete to attract the interest of Saudi investors; from institutional and commercial meetings in Rome to the headquarters of the Landless Workers' Movement in S,o Paulo.