WASHINGTON --- The U.S. public and private sectors are among the leading drivers of a global drive to snap up usable – and often in-use – agricultural land, in what critics say remains a steadily increasing epidemic of “land-grabbing.” Africa and Southeast Asia are together seeing some three-quarters of problematic large-scale land acquisitions,
U.S. Investors, Government Policies Leading Global Land-Grabs
Massive land-grabs are driving commercial agriculture and investment around the world, often at the expense of the world’s small-scale farmers – who feed 80 percent of the developing world.