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The Landgrabbers - The New Fight Over Who Owns the Planet

The Landgrabbers - The New Fight Over Who Owns the Planet

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The Landgrabbers - The New Fight Over Who Owns the Planet

by Pearce, Fred

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9781905811731
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London: Eden Project, 2012. A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped.xi + 388 pages. map endpapers and maps in the text. The race is on to grab the world's most precious and irreplaceable resource: land. The author has gone in pursuit of the globe-trotting landgrabbers - a larger-than-life cast of characters that includes city speculators, Gulf oil sheikhs, Chinese entrepreneurs, big name financiers like George Soros, and industry titans like Richard Branson. His findings are extraordinary. Parcels o land the size of Wales are beong gobbled up across the plains of Africa, the paddy fields of South-east Asia, the jungles of the Amazon and the prairies of Eastern Europe. The land - often fraudently sold by governments as vacant - turns out to be the property of subsistence farmers, cattle herders and forest tribes. All this is being done in the name of feeding the world. But will it? Does taking land from the poorest and hungriest really make sense? Or is the landgrab more about profits than full stomachs? B2E. First. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

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Fred Pearce is an award-winning author and journalist based in London. He has reported on environment, science, and development issues from sixty-seven 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 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 When the Rivers Run Dry.   

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Bookseller
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Bookseller's Inventory #
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Title
The Landgrabbers - The New Fight Over Who Owns the Planet
Author
Pearce, Fred
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Fine
Jacket Condition
Near Fine
Edition
First
ISBN 10
190581173X
ISBN 13
9781905811731
Publisher
Eden Project
Place of Publication
London
Date Published
2012
Size
8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
Keywords
GLOBAL LANDGRAB
Bookseller catalogs
Nature / Countryside / Natural World / Environment;

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