Concept information
Preferred term

Created: 2015-03-06T13:34:45Z
Last modified: 2015-03-09T05:06:24Z
Notation: cc39a497
Definition
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Land grabbing is the control (whether through ownership, lease, concession, contracts, quotas, or general power) of larger than locally typical amounts of land by any persons or entities (public or private, foreign or domestic) via any means (‘legal’ or ‘illegal’) for purposes of speculation, extraction, resource control or commodification at the expense of agroecology, land stewardship, food sovereignty and human rights.
Created: 9/9/24
Broader concept
History note
- Concept "land grabs" <c_45ce1b52> was deprecated on 24 September 2024 and is replaced by "land grabbing" <c_cc39a497>, which is the recommended concept to use.
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Created: 2020-04-27T18:55:42Z
Arabic
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Burmese
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Created: 2020-07-14T11:15:03.233+02:00
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Czech
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Thai
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