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Tag: Land grabbing

  • Thursday, April 26th 2012 - 06:10 UTC

    “Land grabbing” and the concentration process in Mercosur members

    The price of land in Uruguay increased seven-fold in the last 10 years

    The processes of concentration, foreign ownership and land degradation came to be a central concern of supranational bodies and NGOs that warn, like the United Nations Organizations for Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), of the “negative effects of these phenomena on food security, agricultural employment and the development of family farming.”