Land Grabbing

After the financial meltdown in 2008, the global financial capital discovered the business segment of global farmland and demand for land has soared as investors look for places to grow food for export, grow crops for biofuels or simply buy up land for profit. LAND GRABBING gives an inside look into the world of investors in the international agro-business and how the politics of the European Union is involved. It portrays both investors and their victims. Their self-image could not be more different. Investors speak of healthy economics, of safeguarding food supply and of prosperity for all. The victims tell about eviction, enslavement and the loss of their economic base.