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Landgrabbing
Stefano Liberti
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Description for Landgrabbing
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To the governments and corporations that are currently buying up vast tracts of the Third World, it is called "land leasing." To its critics this new era of colonization is nothing more than "land grabbing." 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 ... Read more
To the governments and corporations that are currently buying up vast tracts of the Third World, it is called "land leasing." To its critics this new era of colonization is nothing more than "land grabbing." 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Verso Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781781681176
SKU
V9781781681176
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99-15
About Stefano Liberti
Stefano Liberti is a journalist at the foreign desk of the Italian daily newspaper il manifesto. He is the author of two books: Lo stivale meticcio, a short critical guide documenting the condition of contemporary foreign immigrants in Italy, and A sud di Lampedusa, a groundbreaking exploration of the routes of Sub-Saharan African migrations to Western Europe. He is the ... Read more
Reviews for Landgrabbing
Exemplary reportage ... accurate, engaged, honest.
Corriere della Sera, in praise of A Sud Di Lampedusa
Liberti writes with the curiosity and passion of the great journalists of the past.
Internazionale, in praise of A Sud Di Lampedusa
Corriere della Sera, in praise of A Sud Di Lampedusa
Liberti writes with the curiosity and passion of the great journalists of the past.
Internazionale, in praise of A Sud Di Lampedusa