Land grabbing ten years on
The Land Deal Politics Initiative was launched 10 years ago as a loose network of scholars and activists concerned about the rise of land, water and green grabs across the world and the consequences for rural livelihoods and agrarian relations.
A massive wave of investment in land, resulting in expropriation and displacement, emerged following the financial, food and energy crises of 2008-2009. We wanted to understand what was going on and how best to respond.
Between 2009 and 2019, LDPI organized a series of events to analyse the social, economic, political and environmental dynamics of large-scale land deals and their implications for policy and social movements.
