Landgrabbing

Photos: Stephanie Fässenich / Javier Espinoza

Festival Bioeconomy

LANDGRABBING – LAND AS A SCARCE RESOURCE

Land grabbing is when private investors and corporations secure large areas of land with the help of purchase or lease contracts that are used for growing food or other agricultural products.

13Sept2020

Futurium

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  • Duration:1 hour and 30 minutes
Landgrabbing

Photos: Stephanie Fässenich / Javier Espinoza

Forests are cleared, people are driven out, and earnings are funneled into companies. The author Joseph Zárate presents his text about Ruth Buendía, an indigenous leader of the Ashñaninka who was able to unite her community to prevent the construction of a dam by a company that would have destroyed her land.