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The Landgrabbers: The New Fight Over Who Owns The Earth Paperback – 28 Mar. 2013

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What do City speculators, Gulf oil sheikhs, Chinese entrepreneurs, big-name financiers like George Soros and industry titans like Richard Branson buy when they go shopping? Land. Parcels the size of Wales are being snapped up across the plains of Africa, the paddy fields of Southeast Asia, the jungles of the Amazon and the prairies of Eastern Europe. Why? The money men will tell you that their investments will bring an end to world famine. But is this more about fat profits and food security for the few?

The race is on to grab the world’s most precious and irreplaceable resource. In this brilliant piece of investigative journalism Fred Pearce moves from boardroom and trading floor to goat-herder’s hut and flooded forest. The result is an eye-opening, extraordinarily important examination of the most profound ethical and economic issue in the world today.

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28 Mar. 2013
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Brilliant: Fred Pearce has lifted the lid on an issue that has yet to register with most people. Anyone who cares about the fate of the planet should read this. -- Chris Mullen

Fred Pearce is at the nexus, brilliantly reporting on the biggest swindle of the 21st centurey. He is without peer. ― Susan George, author of HOW THE OTHER HALF DIES

compelling and well-researched ― Nature

A very important piece of work. ― Tony Benn

This is just what the world has been waiting for-a detailed overview of the land grabs that are the principal manifestation of a new geopolitics of food. ― Lester R. Brown, President of Earth Policy Institute and author of World on the Edge

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The Times described Fred Pearce recently as one of Britain's finest science writers. An author and journalist based in London, he has reported on environment, popular science and development issues from over 60 countries over the past 20 years, specialising in global environment issues. He is the environment and development consultant for the New Scientist and writes regularly for the Daily Telegraph, the Guardian, the Independent the Times Higher Education Supplement and Country Life. In the US he has written for the Boston Globe, Audubon Magazine, Foreign Policy, Seed, Popular Science and Time and has written reports and extended journalism for WWF, the UN Environment Programme, the Red Cross, UNESCO, the World Bank and the UK Environment Agency. He is syndicated in Japan, Australia and elsewhere and his books have been translated into at least ten languages, including French, German, Portuguese, Japanese and Spanish.

He was voted BEMA Environment Journalist of the Year in 2001 and has been short-listed for the same award in 2000, 2002 and 2003. He is a past recipient of the Peter Kent Conservation Book Award and the TES Junior Information Book Award.

He is a regular broadcaster on radio and TV, and has given public lectures on all six continents in the past two years.

'Fred is one of the few people that understand the world as it really is' - James Lovelock, scientist

'[Fred is] one of my heroes' - Rt. Hon John Gummer MP, former UK environment secretary

Praise for The Landgrabbers:

'Brilliant: Fred Pearce has lifted the lid on an issue that has yet to register with most people. Anyone who cares about the fate of the planet should read this.' Chris Mullin

Fred's books include: The Landgrabbers, Peoplequake, Deep Jungle, When the Rivers Run Dry, The Last Generation, Confessions of an Eco Sinner and Ian and Fred's Big Green Book for children.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Eden Project Books (28 Mar. 2013)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 448 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1905811756
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1905811755
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 12.7 x 2.8 x 19.8 cm

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Fred Pearce, author of The New Wild, is an award-winning author and journalist based in London. He has reported on environmental, science, and development issues from eighty-five countries over the past twenty years. Environment consultant at New Scientist since 1992, he also writes regularly for the Guardian newspaper and Yale University’s prestigious e360 website. Pearce was voted UK Environment Journalist of the Year in 2001 and CGIAR agricultural research journalist of the year in 2002, and he won a lifetime achievement award from the Association of British Science Writers in 2011. His many books include With Speed and Violence, Confessions of an Eco-Sinner, The Coming Population Crash, and The Land Grabbers.

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Helen MacAllister

Interesting

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This was an interesting discourse but I had the impression of a whistle stop tour around the planet with the author looking at major issues in selected countries. The land takeover by super corporations and foreign governments is very scary and largely hidden from public knowledge. The uses the "acquired" land is put to is, in many cases - at least in this book - morally questionable and often ecologically unsustainable (inappropriate crops for the local ground /climate) but I felt there was something missing. Not all big land users are bad people and the story was rather one-sided but it does highlight important issues and exposes some of the more corrupt practices and greed inherent in the corporate agri-industry. This is certainly worth reading but I would caution that readers might like to undertake further research to balance the view and thus understand that this scrapes the surface and that there are, indeed, extensive abuses of (usually financial) power alongside corruptible subsidy provision as well as many instances of altruistic investment/land management which are never so well documented.

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I loved the book on alien species and 'when the rivers ...

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probably my fault in buying the wrong book. I loved the book on alien species and 'when the rivers run dry', so assumed this would be the same. I think I would prefer to keep my head in the sand and not know the details I've glimpsed at in this book. Probably very good, as the other 2 are.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 9 July 2013

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As usual, delivery was prompt: your suppliers really are excellent!

The content of the book is a real eye-opener. The people who own land, how much, and what they do with it, causes real concern for the future. Everyone should be reading this, and uniting to challenge the Landgrabbersl

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l c maclure

a very informative read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 19 May 2013

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so enjoyed reading this book...very informative..and not too boring..as when given all the stastics of countries..and land grabbing..can be a bit over whelming..but really enjoyed it

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 23 May 2016

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Anybody want to see what's really going on out there, read this.

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A fantastically insightful book that I urge anybody to read

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Richard Ferguson

Good primer, well researched and comprehensive.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 13 January 2021

I'm very late to this book but should add that it gives a good account of the land "frenzy" that began in the early-2000s as the commodity supercycle began to filter through to soft commodities. In effect, it reads like a good "one-stop shop" gathering from many publicly available information sources as well as the author's own research.

Obviously the book has dated in the years since it was initially published (2013 or so?) and since I picked it up by chance at the Edinburgh Book Festival in 2019. However, many of the points made and observed remain salient. The one flaw I would contend is that while the book is strong on observation and data, it fails to address how to resolve the issues. Land is and will always be contentious, but bold and imaginative thinking and policymaking is required if the most egregious injustices are to be avoided.

On a personal note, I was criticised heavily in the book; indeed I was described as a "cheerleader" for mechanised agriculture with my 'dreams of giantism". I thought that was a fairly simplistic view because it confused observation with belief. That said, Pearce is a journalist and I was an analyst. We are both well used to distilling complex arguments and narratives into straightforward soundbites and headlines which often conflict with complexity.

But I wouldn't want that to detract from what I thought was a well written, comprehensive account of a subject which will continue to dominate the lives - positively and negatively - of many hundreds of millions of people across the developing world and which also has an impact on the lives of many of us in the developed world. Anyone looking to familiarise themselves with the subject should read this book and see it as an excellent primer.

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Phil O'Sofa

Good bit of reporting

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 2 June 2016

The author visits various countries, mostly in Africa but also Latin America, Indonesia and other less developed regions, to investigate cases where foreign-owned corporations are buying up large tracts of land to grow crops or oil-palm etc, often clearing rainforest and causing native people to be thrown off common land and lots of other bad stuff.
Not all the land-grabbers are bad people: some have good intentions about improving food production and helping the locals earn a living, though these things are never simple and you can’t always say what’s good or bad. Sometimes the real villains are the local leaders. Most projects turn out to be unsustainable, of course, especially when water is in short supply.
The book is best read one chapter at a time, as the examples here have a lot in common with each other and it becomes quite repetitive, possibly rather depressing, if you let it bother you. That’s the trouble with reading about these things: ignorance is bliss! Still, I found it interesting, and we should be glad there are people like Pearce digging up the dirt.

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