This website contains news and commentary about the global rush to buy up or lease farmlands abroad as a strategy to secure basic food supplies or simply for profit. Its purpose is to serve as a resource for those monitoring or researching the issue, particularly social activists, non-government organisations and journalists.
This blog was set up by GRAIN as a collection of online materials. GRAIN is small international NGO concerned about farmers’ control over biodiversity and local knowledge. They see the current land grab trend as a serious threat to local communities.